I'm one of the 577000 people that live in Tasmania. It truly is a wonderful place to live, but don't tell everybody as we like it just as it is! Also,that was the most scabby wombat I have ever seen.
Im one of the many thousands of Tasmanians born and bred that couldn't get out of there quick enough. I still have a sentimental attachment to the place but there is zero chance I would ever want to live there again.
Tasmania is actually more habitable than Mainland Australia, because it has a cooler wetter climate similar to the UK, even though it is mountainous it doesn’t have earthquakes because the mountains are so old they are eroding away, it somewhat has a similar landscape to parts of Canada, Scotland or New Zealand. Tasmania is an absolutely phenomenal place!
@@davidjackson7281 There is a Basaltic region in the north, but it hasn't been active for tens of millions of years. The reason why the mountains are worn down comes from that stability. Nothing within Australia is pushing new mountains up from underneath, while rain keeps washing away the mountains we do have, so they have gotten... small and blunt.
@@lostbutfreesoulThanks for the info. Now l can feel more at ease knowing so. Would love to visit Tasmania. The mountains sound like they are as old as America's Appalachians.
As an Australian and having visited the state of Tasmania (Tassie) several times I can say that Tassie is the undisputed jewel in our crown. It is an amazing place to visit, beautiful environment and has a fantastic local culture. If you ever visit Australia....it is a must visit.
I grew up in Tasmania in the 1960’s & 70’s, a high percentage of my peers left Tasmania, for mainland Australia, after completing our education to find work. Some returned to raise families many didn’t. Unemployment is still a major concern but it is a stunning Island with a lot to offer. Tasmania gets into your blood and the pull is strong. I love going home to visit family.
I moved to the mainland for work in 2010. My immediate family all live in Hobart and surrounds and I go back at least once a year to visit. So I know what you mean.
I left for better work opportunities, went home to have a family and educate my kids, then we all left for better opportunities on the mainland again. Two of my kids have since moved back, Tassie will always be home.
@@hellovicki6779 And a lot move back. It's a fantastic place to take a holiday in, but the locals are incredibly parochial and narrow-minded and the winters are long and bleak.
I visited Tasmania once. There were more people in walking frames, wheelchairs and using walking sticks than walking upright. Not to mention the intellectual disabilities. I kid you not. I wish the department of statistics would do a study on the percentage per population of Tasmanians on welfare compared to the mainland states.
Let me guess - you're either wealthy, retired, or both wealthy and retired? There's a reason why most young people here move to the mainland as soon as they are able. There's no opportunities here. No jobs, no housing, we get paid half that of people on the mainland for doing the exact same job etc. This is a great state if you're wealthy and old, but not so much if you actually want to succeed in life and not die in poverty.
Retired U.S. Navy. Whenever I am asked what was my most favorite place to visit...it was the port calls in Hobart, Tasmania! I visited Tasmania twice on two separate ships. I loved the ruggedness of the island, the history, surrounded by the ocean, the weather, and most importantly the people!! They are absolutely wonderful! I have even entertained the thought of retiring there, unfortunately the family has a way of pulling you back in...
The U.S. Navy just made itself a lifelong fan! One thing about being a slightly parochial little island is that we are (or at least I am) absolute suckers for a nice word said about us :) Thanks!
@@philwardle7369 Thank you for your hospitality! I served aboard the U.S.S. Carl Vinson during the 1994 visit, and aboard the U.S.S. John C. Stennis during the 2000 visit. I am now 61 years old and have been retired from active duty since 2003. Maybe one day before it is my time, I may return and raise a "schooner" with my old friends! Please forgive me if I got the term wrong!!
Im Tasmanian, my family were early settlers and I have a farm built in 1856 in the south. The stories go deep and i know so much history that many dont. But being so isolated i got curious with life, im currently writing from Thailand after travelling 31 countries in 7 years. Very few places are more beautiful than Tasmania, and it'll be sought after in years to come. Due to over 20% of it being protected by world heritage im so grateful for our farm. Something we will never sell. Truly grateful.
His cows get loose and run right through the fast food parking lots And Daddy gets calls from the mini-malls When they're downwind from his hogs When his tractor backs up traffic, the reception ain't too warm…
Farm built in 1856, and family being early settlers they must have been involved in the “Black War” Since you “ know so much history” tell us more about your family’s involvement in the genocide of the indigenous peoples and how they came about “owning” part of this beautiful land that you will now “never sell” Will make interesting reading.
@@akirapillay9633I was waiting for some bullshit like this to appear under this comment. Sit down. How disgusting of you to chase hatred. This person isn't responsible and no one alive was harmed. Probably white yourself 🤣
I am American and have a friend who lived in Australia for years and when I told him one of my bucket list places to visit was Tasmania, he got a puzzled look on his face and simply said "but why"? Apparently the mainlanders view Tasmanians as backward and the island as a whole as boring with not much there. That's exactly why i want to go there, for the natural aspects, and the quaintness. I've been to enough big cities.
I've lived in nearly every Australian state and in my opinion, Tassie is by far the most beautiful and it has the friendliest people. It's a running joke in the other states about Tassie. Yes, it's a slower paced life with a small population but that's its charm. The secret is getting out though - many mainlanders have been coming over and buying up the cheaper property, prices have doubled in the last few years, making it harder for locals. Hoping this influx doesn't change Tasmania too much, it's perfect as is 😊 Definitely a great little island for a 2 week road roadtrip, come check it out!
I am an Australian "mainlander" who will be moving to live in Tasmania's North West when I retire in October. I had never been to Tassie until the XMAS or 2016 and so enjoyed the landscape, the fresh air (the cleanest on Earth) and temperate climate, but most important was the friendliness of the locals. Everywhere we went the locals all knew we were visitors and they were extremely friendly and generous with their time. Having lived in Sydney for decades I really appreciated how personable the Tasmanians are, and this contributed to my wife and I deciding to buy a house on acreage there so we could retire on this loverly island state.
@@fluffybunnyslippers2505 wrong. I was born at Beaconsfield Hospital in 1963. I lived in Launceston during the wonderful late 1960s. Launceston was like a little London at that time. It was swinging. The Beatles were at there best. It was what can be accurately described as Utopia.
Fun fact: The island state of Tasmania shares a land border with Victoria. Not many Australians know about this. The two states share the shortest land border in the country on Boundary Islet, located in the Bass Strait.
As an Aussie, I had some idea, but did not know this. Yes, Trivia here we come ;-) Type in Google Maps, Victoria, then zoom to -39.198459027278716, 147.02158165875082 and you'll see the boundary. 😎
I migrated to Australia in 1985 from UK and spent all my years since living various places on the mainland . I only recently took a trip down to Tasmania couple of years ago and again last year, its a gorgeous place crisp clean air , crystal clear ocean and rivers , fantastic seafood and local produce and No.1 has got to be the people, helpful ,friendly I also had my car with me which had NSW plates on it and other drivers were so courteous to us letting us in when I didn't know where I was going and finding myself in the wrong lane etc. I grew up in 1960s England and it reminded me a lot of that . I am now 63 and would move to beautiful Tassie in a heartbeat .
I like this subject idea. I don't know why so many people live in places that are so inhospitable to living. Like a lack of a source of fresh water and rain. A lack of food resources, etc. yet people still choose to live there in huge numbers.. like Vegas and any other region in the world that is densely populated but relies on water sources from different areas....
It's quite something to stand on a beach on Tasmania's west coast. Did it at dusk in February, decades ago. The waves were roaring so loudly we could hardly hear each other speak; the waves seemed about 20ft high, the sky and sea were inky grey. It's amazing to stand there with your arms out, knowing that the wind is blasting at you from right around the planet! All the boats coming to Australia from England would head south after the Cape of Good Hope in order to hitch a fast ride on the "Roaring Forties". They could make fast time there, as long as they did not smash on to rocks along the coast of Australia, which some did.
Tasmania's West Coast is that of very few places left that look like the Earth before the human race started to walk on two legs. Could only imagine what did you feel being there
@jaysmith3361 Stunning. I mean it's virtually untouched yet it's not some dull polar vastness or a generic sticky jungle but a lush forest on a rugged coast at the very edge of the world
I've also done this as the sun was setting. On the bluff above the a long beach in either direction of me and not another person in sight, with the wind roaring and blowing back my hair is incredibly spiritual. Then going down to swim as the only person on the beach was amazing.
As a resident of Hobart, I'd like to tell you what Tasmania is really like. Firstly, Tasmania is the second dryest State in Australia. We get a fair bit of cloud cover but not a lot of rain. It can get windy at times, especially on the West Coast, but it's not always windy and we can always count on a cool seabreeze at the end of a hot summer's day which mainlanders cannot. We don't have a large population but that's how we like it. That's WHY we choose to live here because we enjoy a better quality of life, and it's why we don't want everyone to know what a great place it is to live. There are no crowds to contend with, no serious traffic jams, parking is easy wherever you go and it's safer to walk the streets on your own. Real estate is much cheaper here, most homes have spacious backyards, and we now have some of the strongest anti gun laws in the world, making gun crime almost non-existent. People are friendlier here, we have a vibrant arts culture, we host some awesome annual events, we have the coolest museum in the world - MONA, loads of wildlife, and a clean, scenic beach is never far away no matter where you live. Whilst our population is small, Tasmania is a popular tourist destination. 1.26 million people visited in 2023 alone. The State offers many scenic bushwalking and mountain climbing opportunities, incredible coastal scenery, magnificent snow capped peaks and some of the last remaining old growth forests in the world. The State offers excellent fishing, we have the cleanest air in the world and cleaner water than other cities. Tasmania has the highest ratio of boat ownership in Australia and has many wineries and historic buildings to explore. Yes the temperatures are cooler and, frankly, a lot more pleasant than the other States during summer, but nothing a roaring log fire won't fix in winter. Hobart is just an hour's flight from Melbourne so it's really not that isolated. Tasmanians really have so much to be grateful for, but please don't tell everyone.
G'day Stephanie, I'm another Hobartian and I couldn't agree more. Isn't it bizarre how foreigners view our home. This Yank pokes 'fun' at our low population like there's something wrong. He skews all the 'facts & figures' about Tasmania and tries hard to turn them into negatives. Twerp. Like so many young Tasmanians, after school, I had to go to Melbourne because the jobs I wanted to do just weren't available here, at that time. I made a brief trip to New York for work but couldn’t imagine living there. I spent some time in the RAAF and then my wife and I wanted to live and work in Europe for a while. Venice and Paris were lovely cities and we stayed with friends in London. Our last stop overseas was Dubai and I can tell you we couldn't get back to Tassie fast enough. That was over 30 years ago and we have no plans to live anywhere else on the planet. We bought a really nice, cheap house on the Eastern Shore and had so much left over we renovated till we had our 'perfect' home. Just before the Pandemic, we had planned to visit a few European cities again but decided against it. With all the strife, wars, shootings and other crazy stuff going on in the world these days; we'd be mad not to live here. Cheers, Bill H.
Hobart is the second driest capital city, after Adelaide. Tasmania is most certainly not the second driest state, with the West Coast recording up to 3500mm per year.
Aussie here, The wife and I just visited Tassie for the first time this year (in winter), and we were so smitten that before our current holiday even wrapped up, we had already locked in another one for next year. Absolutely fell in love with the place.
I've been to the Tasmanian capital of Hobart once. Despite being the second smallest capital city, it still felt vibrant and full of life. There was a charm about it that made me feel welcomed and the view of the snow capped peak of Mt Wellington in the background was amazing. I visited in late July which was the middle of Winter. Didn't feel terribly cold which either meant I was there during a warm spell or the weather isn't as dire as we are led to believe. Driving up to the Peak of Mt Wellington got cold with snow fall around the area which was just gorgeous. Hobart is honestly such a lovely city and the geographical location makes the scenery around the city amazing. I would love to visit Tasmania proper rather than just flying to the capital too however. Even though the island has no road connections, it is serviced by the Spirit of Tasmania which is a ferry service that runs both day and night trips from Geelong, Vic to Devonport, Tas. It takes around 12 hours to make the trip by boat which carries people, cars and trucks. So it is possible to technically drive between Tasmania and the mainland. Because of the ferry service it is not unusual to see cars with Tasmanian registration plates driving about on the mainland. I am more surprised when I see a Western Australian or Northern Territory registration plate on the local roads as THEY came from far and beyond - And I live in South Australia which is in the middle of all the mainland states and territories so you would expect to see a mix of interstate registered cars!
Thank you for your great comments on Hobart! You were definitely here during an unseasonably warm July. I think it was one of the warmest on record. Spring has been cooler than winter this year. Enjoy your next visit, there’s a lot to see & enjoy here!
Hobart sounds like a wonderful place to visit. I'm way up in the United States so I may never venture that far unfortunately. But sounds similar in some ways to the way it is here. I live near Canada and go there quite a bit, and I would describe the smaller city of Halifax, Nova Scotia as being much more charming and enjoyable to visit than the bustle of Toronto, which population wise is probably much more comparable to Sydney.
@@knocknapeasta Yes, I still remember the bitterly cold Canberra winters I spent there during many school holidays as a kid over 40 years ago! I live in Hobart now and our weather is nothing compared to Canberra and the Southern Highlands area of NSW!
I appreciate that you've made a video about Tasmania, since a lot of Americans know little about it, but I have some issues with this. I hope one day you'll visit Tasmania, because I think a lot of the impressions you've gleaned from online research are skewed. It's quite offensive to title the video 'Why "Nobody" Lives On Australia's Big Island State,' even with "nobody" in question marks. More than half a million people live there, or 2% of Australia's population. That's roughly equivalent to states like Massachusetts and Tennessee, and you wouldn't (I hope) say "nobody lives in Indiana" or describe Colorado as "empty." Australia's population density is 3.35 per Km2, and Tasmania's is 8.44 per Km2, so from an Australian perspective Tasmania is not a "big, empty island," it's a small and relatively densely populated island. 0:11 Australia doesn't "own" Tasmania. It's a state of Australia. 0:17 Tasmania is "almost the exact same size as Sri Lanka," but that doesn't explain why you compare it to Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka is a country, not a state within a country, and like many Asian countries, it's overpopulated. There would be no good reason to compare Maine with Taiwan, or Rhode Island with Bangladesh. 4:07 Tasmania has a unique history, and most Australians wouldn't describe it as a "microcosm of Australia." 5:02 You compare Tasmania to Florida, which has "many millions more people," but Tasmania is closer in size to North Dakota, which has a population of 784,000. Again, you're deliberately comparing Tasmania to densely populated areas to make it seem "empty" rather than looking at it in the context of its own country and culture. 5:07 You say "the island's terrain is predominantly mountainous, a stark contrast to much of mainland Australia's flatter landscape overall," with a shot of the desert. It's this kind of thinking that leads Americans to erroneously conclude that Australia has no mountains! The landscape of Australia is huge and diverse. Much of it is desert, but we don't regard the desert as typical and all other landscapes in Australia as unusual. Many Australian states and territories are mountainous. We have a ski season, and a mountain range we call "The Australian Alps." Deliberately contrasting Tasmania's mountainous regions with desert areas on the mainland is like saying Vermont is unusual and New Mexico is normal. 5:52 You contrast the mainland's "long, sandy beaches" with Tasmania's "steep cliffs," but you've shown Queensland's Gold Coast, over a thousand miles to the North as the crow flies. Much of Australia's coastline has "steep cliffs," and Tasmania has many "long, sandy beaches," so the contrast wouldn't make sense from the perspective of an Australian. 6:20 You say Tasmania has "higher rainfalls" and a "far greener landscape compared to much of Australia." This is misleading. As you say at 6:30, most of the rainfall is on the sparsely populated wilderness areas of the West Coast. Hobart, on the East Coast, is actually Australia's second-driest capital city. It's not "far greener" than most populous areas. 6:50 "Huon" is pronounced "HYOO-un." :) 5:59 Tasmania does not "[exist] as something of an afterthought in terms of Australian migration." In addition to the original inhabitants who lived here for thousands of years, it was one of the two earliest British colonies in Australia, and as I mentioned earlier, has a population density around 2.5 times higher than the rest of Australia. There have also been many waves of immigration from within Australia and from countries like China, Nepal, India, the Netherlands and most recently South Sudan. 8:15 The climate is not a "huge deterrent," and you've erroneously characterised Victoria as "warm/sunny" and Tasmania as "cool/wet." The temperature difference between Tasmania and Victoria is only a couple of degrees, and while Tasmania's West Coast is "wetter," the East Coast (where most of the population is concentrated) is drier - much more so than Melbourne, which has a significantly higher rainfall. 8:52 You describe Hobart as "isolated," but you haven't mentioned that it's a flight time of only 1 hour and 20 minutes, and it's a port city. 9:59 Finally, you say "so few people" live in Tasmania because it's "one of the windiest regions in the world." This honestly is the first time in my life I've ever heard this. The Roaring Forties were historically viewed as advantageous, and while they certainly batter the West Coast, the East Coast of Tasmania (again, where most of the population lives) is not typically regarded as windy. 11:48 It's true that Tasmania became the first Australian state to become 100% powered by renewable energy, but you seem to attribute this entirely to wind farms, when Tasmania has actually relied on a very successful hydroelectric scheme for more than a century. It's a good thing that you made a video about Tasmania, but I think you've read a bunch of facts and put them together in some strange ways that give an erroneous impression of the state. The perspective you took, that Tasmania is a "big, empty" island is skewed. From an Australian perspective it's a small island with a reasonably high population density. I think if you'd instead asked yourself why more than half a million people live there, instead of asking why more people don't, the conclusions you arrived at would have been better informed.
Tasmania has had a long history of Hydro Electric power, and has produced renewable energy to power the island for well over fifty years. Whilst there are wind farms there with plans to build more, you’ve missed the story that the island already has a long history of 100% renewable energy production.
For some reason, a lot of the people in power hate Hydro-Electric Dams….I live in the Pacific Northwest in the US and they have been tearing them all down for the past decade…🤷🏼
I immigrated to Australia and lived in Tasmania for 2 years. I couldn't find a decent job so I moved to a larger city on the mainland. The weather is okay but the summer heat feels like radiation from a nuclear explosion. I met so many friendly, hospitable people there. People I met were very family orientated. The beaches are so beautiful and uncommercialized.
Oh no not this myth that Tasmania is hot... Cos of the ozone layer they say. That's a joke, I lived there and never had the chance to go for a swim it's so cold. Try Brisbane or Darwin or even Perth or Adelaide for real heat
@@MrPorkncheese Tasmania does summer better then the rest of the country does winter. 25 degrees and clear skies is summer enough thankyou. Just because the mainland gets above 30 constantly doesn't mean that's the standard of summer everywhere.
I have 12 convict ancestors, most of whom were sent to Van Diemens Land My first relative in Australia arrived in 1788 as part of the first fleet. My first relatives in Tasmania came after Norfolk Island was shutdown. I left Tasmania in 2008 but decided to return permanently in 2016. Your information is good, however what you say about Tasmania’s renewable energy is primarily through hydro electricity which accounts for 80% of our electricity. Tasmania exports power to the mainland through the Bass Link Cable.
My family (wife, 2 kids and I) moved to Tasmania in 2011 from Western Australia and it was the best decision we ever made. I went from a 3 hour daily commute across the scorched landscape of Perth to a 30 minute commute from the beautiful Huon Valley to Hobart. The small population here means everything is accessible and comfortable. We we warned about the “harsh” weather before coming but you adjust to the occasional -3c days in Winter and on some days you can spend the morning at the beach and the afternoon in the snow with only an hour between them. I now work outside only a few minutes from home and wear shorts all year round when working. This place is paradise. I couldn’t help but laugh when you identified Devonport and Burnie as the northern towns and not Launceston because the folks in Launceston are a little sensitive about not being the centre of the world. 😂
Yes, it's lovely, the Huon Valley is stunning. I stayed in WA though, Tassie's infrastructure has a long way to go to catch up. I wouldn't blame Perth for your 3 hour commute. I'm 35kms from Perth in a rural location, takes me 45 mins to get to the city. New schools, hospitals and other facilities are the result of WA's booming economy, so Tassie will remain a holiday destination for us.
@@ryanh438 Sydney has devolved into a traffic-plagued shit-hole. Enjoy your 3 hour daily commute, dog-box living, crowded beaches and toll-roads forever.
Moved to Tasmania from Western Australia 9 years ago. It's a heavenly place. Wilderness areas where nobody lives ( no roads and only a few settlements in the West of the island. Historic buildings. Wineries,Cider houses, Restaurants and some beautiful places to stay. Yes its cooler , we even have snow on the hills. However I live on a bay so no snow for us yet. We love our island home.
It seems inaccurate when discussing Tasmania achieving 100 percent renewable electricity generation to show pictures of wind turbines. The far larger contribution that those westerly winds make to renewable energy is to bring the rain, and perhaps snow, that enable hydropower to generate over eighty percent of the states electricity.
The central area to the east of the western tiers is the cold arid zone. you drive through it going from Launceston to Hobart and surrounds the town of Ross. What the Scotts that settled the area discovered is that this climate caused the Merino sheep to produce finer micron wool which has been further enhanced by breeding and a thriving trade in wool back to Britain from here and elsewhere in Australia put a lot of their kindred Scots out of work as the Weaving Barons of central and Northern England wanted the finer wool and not the traditional course Scottish wool. Tassie is a beautiful place with such a diverse geography and I would live there in a heartbeat if I could. Please don't overpopulate it and destroy it's character. Interesting fact, Hobart and Launceston are the second and third oldest settlements in Australia. Both are older than Melbourne and all the other capitals except Sydney.
@@frasercrone3838 Videos made by non-Australians who will probably never visit the place are not helping to keep Tassie the secret it has been. It'll be overun & ruined in no time. I lived there for 14 years. Not for the faint hearted.
You open the video asking why Tasmania only has 2% of Australia's population. Would the fact that it only has 0.9% of Australia's land area have anything to do with that ?
People are moving to Tasmania. House prices went through the roof during covid. Working remotely let many people shift from the big cities on the mainland. Before that I know alternative types who bought land, one couple bought a small farm with dams to live a self-sufficiency lifestyle, another bought a forest block to build a retirement home. Both with an eye to avoiding global warming on the mainland. Both south of Hobart.
I think the problem is more the age of the population than the size of it. The people moving in are all older, while a lot of the young people born there move to the mainland. It's gradually turning into a nursing home.
Housing got expensive when interest rates were low and superannuation became mandatory in the 90's. For many mainlanders Tasmania was a cheap place for investment properties in beach suburbs
@@adrienneclarke3953 - Industry superannuation had no effect on housing, because it diverted income into long-term saving. Maybe SMSFs because they're the people who could rapidly exploit the system and then bid up prices. The fundamentals are the capital gains / negative gearing system which turned housing into a casino and did not deliver the supply promised.
I lived in Tassie for 12 years, and loved the place. The people are friendly, the air is clean, and housing is more affordable (though still expensive) than on the mainland. I lived in Launceston in the north, which has retained many of it's beautiful old buildings. The winters are relatively cold, but it's a fair trade-off for avoiding the blistering heat of the mainland summers. I hope to return one day, when circumstances permit.
Housing prices now are the same or at par as melbourne. The quality of houses in Tasmania is not so great. Most of the houses being built in 1930-40s with limited rental options. Its a nightmare.
@@tig79rover91 I wouldn't really call it a "path", as such. More like a couple of stepping stones. Just go South Sou East from China through South East Asia, and we're the last stepping stones. Tasmania's the little one at the bottom. Just watch where you put your foot down because of snakes and stuff. And don't go in the water.
Im born and raised in Tassie (64 years).Just to give a perspective Holland is 2/3 the size of Tassie with 17 million people ,we have low crime and no wars as there are no neighbours to fight with , if you like out door activities its a great place , I have driven around ,bush walked ,kayaked ,sailed ,dived and motorbiked all over Tassie and still haven't seen it all ,once talked to a mainlander (what we call people from the big island to the north) who on her first visit done 3 weeks travelling around and said she needed to come back for another 3 weeks as there was so much to see here .Also the island is diverse the west coast is different to the east coast and the central highland are different again ie weather ,scenery and vegetation, also weather is not extreme here it can get a bit cold over winter ,I live in Burnie and only see snow here once in 30 years and summers aren't scorching hot like on north island , we could probably do with a population growth to help support more diverse industries here , but like most tasmania's we dont want to many people here as its pretty good the way it is
I moved from mainland Australia to Tasmania, the best move I've ever made. Better seasonal climate, friendlier cities and communities, and amazing landscapes.
I would like to point out that UTAS - the University of Tasmania is highly regarded around the world and attracts students to study here, with campuses across the state, this also helps boost our economy in indirect ways. Tasmania is also one of the key launching points for researchers whose expertise lies in Antarctica also. We also have the highest quality produce, clean air and water than most of the mainland cant boast about. There’s a fair bit going on in our little island.
It blows me away that UTAS is considered good, They have been in decline for a decade. Maybe its just the marine and environmental studies that are decent quality.
I'm a UTAS graduate, both my sons are UTAS graduates, and they have done well out of it. But we all know UTAS under the current Vice Chancellor Rufus Black is facing more questions than he has answers.
UTAS have carried out research into Tassies origins, very interesting their geology dept. carried out some research to prove it was originally part ot the north coast of America sandwiched between what we know as The Arctic and North West America. I had an American passenger in my Cab from Hobart Airport who told me how much like Montana Tassie is. Check it out very interesting Nothing todo with Australia🤥
Tasmania is awesome but I can’t believe no one has mentioned the quirky like Binalong Bay with all the houses with their own “Bin….” name, or how Tassie is the largest producer of the Poppy cultivars responsible for Thebaine (or OxyContin, 85%) and Oripavine (an opioid, 100%) of the global supply plus 25% of the global opium and codeine production and medicinal cannabis is grown in southern Tassie. In terms of global healthcare pain relief that tiny state produces over half of the raw materials required. What about the monkeys in the park in Launceston or Australia’s most loveable criminal (after Ned Kelly), Chopper Read lived there for years. The Cat and Fiddle Arcade in Hobart with the cat and fiddle clock which plays the nursery rhyme … Pink Eye Potatoes which you literally can’t buy anywhere else in the country EVER! Huon Pine, everything Huon Pine especially at Salamanca Market in Hobart. The Black Heart Sassafras from Tassie is the best but the only other place that grows it is South Australia anyway. 😁 My wedding was the first one held in the conservatory at the Hobart Royal Botanic gardens after its anniversary overhaul (60th I think) in 1999. Such a beautiful place to live and raise a family, it’s rich in history and while it can be as dangerous as anywhere else (I was assaulted by 4 people and left bleeding in the street after they were frightened off by a little old lady who called them cowards before calling the police for me) I found there are more friendly and kind people there than anywhere else in the country. They just believe in each other more.
Indeed, it is mostly for economic and historical factors Tasmania has low population, if it was just for isolation. New Zealand is even more isolated, but has a robust economy and it's a powerhouse for its region
However isn't it just the north island of New Zealand with all the population and the south island much less because of the harsher climate and terrain? I would argue the underdevelopment of these areas actually makes them superior. Man hasn't ruined as much of the natural environment in these places.
@digitalfootballer9032 For someone like me who originally grew up in Tasmania, I've always thought that it's geographically and temperately similar to NZ's North Island, but culturally (lifestyle) more similar to NZ's South Island. Having never visited New Zealand of course, it's just my observation.
The Tasmanians were a distinct people, isolated from Australia and the rest of the world for 12,000 years. In 1803, British colonisation began and in 1876, Truganini died. She was the last full-blood and tribal Tasmanian Aboriginal. For 12,000 years the Aborigional Natives lived in harmony on Van Diemens Land/Tasmania - in 40 years they were wiped out - the colonisers walked across the Island in a row killing them - Quote - James Cook in 1777 also played his part in clearing hordes of the local populace from the island. But it was the British in 1803 who drove home the final nail. It was estimated that 7,000-8,000 indigenous Tasmanians were finally killed off within twenty-seven years of the British colonization.
Sad to read this. Really heartbreaking. The British left a trail of destruction everywhere they went. A ruthless Northcote presided over the killing of hundreds if not thousands of our people too in 1904.
Think you under sold the ruggedness of the west coast and central areas. Nearly half the island in uninhabitable unless you’re nomadic. Getting roads in there is nigh on impossible and with no roads: no population. Thanks to this the island’s inhabitable area is a lot less than its actual size.
Please go to Tasmania some day. It is the smallest populated state (though not as small as Northern Territory) but it certainly is not "empty". It is a VERY popular tourist destination, has MANY delightful towns, and 2 or 3 larger cities. "Empty" is just a non sequitur, and a false one.
Simply its economics and geography. Tasmania has small harbours and to far south for economic development. Its mostly a rural area, mountains and old forests which we are very protective about
I am Indonesian lived in Malaysia for 4 years , Thailand for 4 years and Victoria for 14 years. I have been to Tasmania many times and if i could i would move there, in a heartbeat. Perhaps one day. The whole Tasmania is so beautiful 😍
I'm Indonesian, I visited Tasmania back in December 2017. I really love the atmosphere and landscape! People are nice as well! I'm going to visit New Zealand next month, I can't wait to see their fellow Anglo brothers across the ditch!
@@robertwatson9940 Nah sorry I'm not interested in hot desert areas, save for Arizona and Nevada. I've enough of heat in this country, it'd be refreshing to enjoy faux Europe just next to our doorstep.
I have a friend who graduated from the univ in Tasmania and they still keep complimenting and still plan to go back to Tasmania today but due to their work they sill never go back
I visited Tasmania in November 2019. It is very beautiful. Awesome beaches, cliffs, waterfalls, temperate rainforests, snowy mountains, and unique wildlife. The Tasmanians are very nice. I highly recommend visiting Tasmania if you can!
Before watching the video I'll say that I always wondered why the low population for Tasmania, as for climate the southeastern portion of Australia is densely populated, and the island for its latitude could provide a even more temperate and even colder climate, suitable for the Scottish immigrants when Australia was being colonized.
It's decided balmy compared to Scotland which lies at 55 - 60 degrees north, while we are only 40 degrees south. I remember freezing in Scotland, and I MUCH prefer Tasmania.
There are a lot of Scots-inspired place and street names here - Perth, Ross, Campbell Street, Argyle Street. One of the Highland regiments spent a lot of time here in the early days of colonisation. Victorian era British considered the Tasmanian climate amongst the healthiest in the world.
That's me! A Scottish immigrant, I mean. I lived on the mainland for 14 year, mainly in Queensland, before moving to Tas. It reminds me of Scotland and the border country between England & Scotland. It is the most un-Australian-looking state of all.
@ 4:59 Florida is more than 2 times larger than Tasmania. I'm not sure where you got that stat from, but Tasmania is closer to the size of West Virginia.
quite right geoff made a big mistake there. I think the confusion arises because florida's area is usually stated in square miles and tassie area is written in square kilometers
I love hearing about Australia from an American perspective. I live in Cairns in the far north of Queensland. Northern tropical Australia is another anomaly with far less people than it should have given its abundant rainfall and proximity to Asia. Like Tasmania, the Northern half of Australia is often forgotten by those in Canberra.
Also isn't the north coast of the country hit by a lot of cyclones? Not that it stops people in America, Florida has the most hurricanes and still has a huge population.
@@100percentSNAFU you forgot to mention Japan, Korea, China, the Philippines and many others while you were so busy bashing America for living within their country.
My in laws live in cairns and while I’m blown away by its sheer beauty, I keep saying “it looks like Jurassic park, where’s the clever girl hiding” but honestly I suffer in the humidity, it reminds me of southern china, I can’t do it, and my in laws are tough Aussies who don’t like air con but fresh air, so I really suffer lol it was only 28 degrees but the humidity man, us southern states don’t vibe with that humidity, we like our dry air 😂
Regarding bushfires. In the past controlled burns during the cooler winter months reduced the fuel loads of dead leaves and tree branches. Unfortunately the Green movement virtually put an end to this practice so fuel loads on the ground have built up. Most fires are deliberately lit by arsonists.
I had a chance to hike the overland track in Tasmania, it was a treat. I was so impressed at how much work was done on the trails, there were long sections of boardwalk to avoid muddy stretches. People were friendly and it was a life memory.
@@spelunkerd My dad - Garth Foley was the first person to set the running time for the overland track before there was a boardwalk.. almost broke his ankle but I think he completed the run in about 9 hours. I feel the time is now down to 7 hours.
My prime reason for moving to Tasmania 15 years ago from NSW was to escape suburban overcrowding and highrise apartment living. Landing in Hobart and being driven around the same I thought I stepped through a time tunnel 25 years into the past I was delighted. After 8 years of living on the outskirts of Hobart and being time to retire we purchased property in the far NW of Tasmania just about as far NW as you could go and never looked back. Yes, winters are cold and wet, summer however is pleasant and mild, and it took us three winters to acclimatize to the weather. One 🤣 at mainlanders arriving to live on this island paradise, spend one winter here and scurry back to their mainland warm nests. We care not why our population is so small, we want to keep it that way.
I've known Tas destroy marriages. Some people fall in love with the place, and won't (or can't) leave. Others rush back to the Mainland after one wet, cold, windy winter. It's an island, and islanders have a different relationship to the land.
I live in rural Wales, U.K and mainland Australia has never seemed attractive to me. Tasmania seems like paradise, and coming from coastal Wales I'm used to wind and rain.
I was born in the 80s and grew up in Hobart in the 90s, I moved to Melbourne in 07. I lived in Hobart however my family was from the far south and that’s where I felt most at home. I think the country side and coastal regions are absolutely beautiful and I do miss being so close to these incredibly beautiful locations, i think Hobart itself these days feels far busier than it used to, I don’t visit much now, but it will always hold some special memories. Melbourne lately has become far too busy for our roads and infrastructure to support the population boom in the last 20 years, even Sydney feels more laid back now.
4:58 Florida has a larger land area of 53,625 sq mi (138,887 km2) while Tasmania has an area of 68,401 km2 (26,410 sq mi). Source is Wikipedia. I can see how you might’ve thought Florida was smaller if you were comparing square miles to square kilometers
@@Michael-D.-Williams when converting between square kilometers and square mikes you would use (1.60934)^2 as the conversion factor because it is area and not length
The Mercator projection may have something to do with it. Florida is at 28N, while Tas is at 42S. That difference may be small but it does make Tas look larger on a flat map.
One day when Melbourne reaches over 8 million people and an undersea high speed rail network is established between Victoria and Tasmania, things will change in a major way.
@@E4439Qv5 no because there has never been a high speed rail link at those ocean depths before or for that distance and Melbourne isn't edging on 8 million at the moment. But by the 2050s that might become a totally different proposition.
I'm a North Islander and this is a easy question to answer. The majority of the South Island's land area is either mountainous and/or National Parks and therefore not suitable for urban development. Secondly, the climate. The South Island is a lot colder and wetter than the North Island. Thirdly, economic opportunities. There are far more job opportunities in the North Island. It's not uncommon to find North Islanders who've never been to the South Island.
I visited Tasmania during my first trip across Australia and it was absolutely stunning, and the people who live there are incredibly kind! I went to Devenport, Launceston and Hobart! Winter was rolling in during my time there and I experienced snow which is something I never thought I’d come across in Australia! The cities are beautiful and the wildlife, forests and mountains are stunning. If I could live anywhere in the world, I’d most likely choose Tasmania!
Wild life! Yep! For all my glowing words elsewhere here, that reminded me of another aspect of Tasmania. It's the road kill capital of the world. Many European visitors are 'blown away' by the carnage on the roads.
As someone who lives both on the main land and on the north west coast of Tasmania, I have thoroughly enjoyed your presentation Geoff - it sums up the geography very well - I personally feel that Tassie is a paradise on earth, and love every minute we spend here. Perhaps it is a bonus that so few people live here.
I moved to Tasmania about 11 years ago after spending 40 years on the mainland (Sydney and Newcastle). Absolutely love it here. One of the more interesting things about Tasmania is that we have a huge amount of roadkill. Every single day I drive in my car I will see a dead animal on the side of the road. Sad, but it actually means that there is a huge amount of animals living here. Wallabies and echidnas are common on my front lawn.
@JohnDoe-cf8jz Actually there are three venmous snakes, the tiger, copperhead and white lipped. There are also several venemous spiders, but most (of the worst) cause pain and sickness, not death.
@@therespectedlex9794 Thanks for the update. I'm not a fan of really hot places or where much of the flora and fauna seem to want to kill people. Maybe I'll get to visit Tasmania some day, seems a nice place.
Lived in Sydney, NSW until I couldn't stand the heat anymore. - 35-40C. Have been in Tassie since 2009 and love its temperate zone which suits me perfectly.
I might have one reason why 'Nobody' lives in Tasmania. I live in Canada, and we have signs in rural areas describing the fire risk. You drive by and it says the that the fire risk in the area is Low, Medium, High or Extreme. So, you know whether starting an outdoor fire is a good idea or not, or even allowed. Well, I visited Tasmania a few years ago, and they have the same kind of signs, However, their signs have a level beyond Extreme - Catastrophic. They also have wildfire evacuation sites - places to evacuate to when the wildfires really get out of control. We don't have those. Apparently eucalyptus trees burn really, really, really well.
Those fire signs stating 'Catastrophic' are used in the entire country. As you can appreciate, that's a rare event. Evacuation sites are simply designated areas like a football field or stadium where people can congregate during natural disasters. I'm 60 and thankfully never had to use anything like that and nor have I experienced bush fire.
December 2022 had the privilege of hiking the 3 Capes of Tasmania's Tasman National Park. One of the greatest trips ever, highly recommended for rugged, wild beauty. On the other hand, Hobart's Museum of New and Old Art, MONA was a cultural and culinary highlight. Tasmania is a bucket list destination for Australians and foreigners who enjoy the outdoors, farm to table fine dining, wineries, art and friendly kind locals. What's not to like?!
My wife and I vacationed in Tasmania when I was stationed in the outback with the US Air Force. We loved it!!! We stayed 9 nights…3 in one place, 3 in another, and the last 3 in Hobart. We had great food and the people were awesome! Most of our American friends went to New Zealand…we picked Tasmania. The Bass Straight was a little rough on the way down…but still fun! Highly recommend a vaca in Tasmania!!!!!!!!!!!
One very famous person who has left Tasmania is Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark, Countess of Monpezat, R.E. (born Mary Elizabeth Donaldson) who was born in Hobart and met Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark in a bar at the Sydney Olympics in 2000. They were married in 2004 in Copenhagen.
Hi Geoff! There are many of us that watch your channel that use the metric system. I'm sure people would love it if you used both!! Great video about Tasmania and why "nobody" lives there! Keep up the good work!!!👍
I moved to Hobart from Sydney about 2 years ago and I have to rebut some of your points pretty hard. 1. Tasmania offers the best beaches I've ever seen in my life. They're extremely convenient to major population centres too. It is true that 9 months of a year it's not swimming weather, but the same can be said of Melbourne. 2. In an automated world, there's just as much work in Tasmania as anywhere else and Tasmania's official unemployment rate is nearly identical with that on mainland Australia. 3. While the roaring 40s make the west coast pretty uninhabitable, weather in Hobart is generally better than in Sydney, and very happily cooler. As I write Sydney has just experienced its second stormy 40 degree C day in December where, here in Hobart, it was calm and cloudless with a top of 26, just as it should be. 4. The REAL reason no one lives here is most Australians have no idea Tasmania is such a very nice place to live. Indeed I'm violating the code by telling you any of this. Let the crowded mainland parboil along with the rest of the crowded and idiotic world. We Tasmanians are happy in our unspoilt, peaceful and plentiful lifeboat.
Mount Kosciuszko is the highest peak on the Australian mainland. Australia's highest peak (if you exclude our Antarctic claims) is Mawson Peak on Heard Island.
⚠ Sorry, you made a mistake: Australia's tallest mountain is "Big Ben" 2,745 m (9,006 ft). "Mount Kosciuszko" is the highest mountain on the mainland 2,228 metres (7,310 ft)
Honestly visiting Tasmania was one of my favorite parts of visiting Australia.. but I'd move near Sydney or Brisbane first because I couldn't stand the weather in Tasmania year round. It was an amazing place to visit though.
Sydney? Not if my life depended on it! Over populated, over priced and full of people who don't want to be there, unless they own a $15 m. house overlooking the harbour and can walk to work. Brisbane is a different kettle of fish. Melbourne's good if you can afford to live fairly close to the city and close to public transport, but the suburbs are a dump.
@@ElusiveTy Australia has some great places to live, I live in one. But it is also home to some of the greatest 5h!tholes on Earth. Well, maybe not that bad, but there are plenty of places that you don't need to visit here, let alone live in.
I have lived in Tasmania since 1998. It has its plusses and minuses. Natural beauty in Landscape and clean environments are the big pluses, healthcare and work opportunities are the negatives. Isolation has its pluses and minuses.
I am from Sri Lanka and went to Tasmania for vacation.. What an Amazing Place... You feel the comfort of Fresh Air No sooner you come out of the Hobbart Air Port..
After having bought a block of land here in 2017, we finally finished our new home in the last month and have moved to Tasmania to retire after having lived in Brisbane for the past 61 years of my life. Climate change means i am very happy to move down here as Brisbane now has an oppressive climate. Tassie has the most magnificent scenery and wine, spirit and food culture. And there is no stress down here. i couldn't be happier.
Tas is a beautiful state . As said rough landscape and very green. After spending days in crowded Melbourne this was a treat Although it might need a higher population, I hope itnstays a little as it is Had a great time there
Good video, really enjoyed it. I'm from the US and would love to visit sometime. You guys seem like really cool people and I'm glad and grateful to count you as friends.
Come on down! We moved from Detroit to Australia as a family back in the 70's. I had severe culture shock to start with, but things are much more up to date now. There is still a lot that's very different, of course, and that's what I love.
It was a culture shock back in the 70's even for mainland Aussies, when my parents moved us here from Melbourne in 72. Tassie has come a long way since those days, not quite the backwater it used to be.@@Tamaresque
I very much enjoyed my visit to Tasmania. It was a bit like entering a time warp, but in a good way. The pace was slower and the people friendly. The flora, fauna, and scenery were fantastic. I'm from the Pacific Northwest so the climate was reminiscent of home. I was introduced to my favorite wine in the whole world there - Stefano Lubiana Pinot Noir. Visiting the cellar door was an experience to remember. I decided if I ever wanted to enter the witness protection program, Bruny Island would be the place where no one would ever find me. It's an island off the coast of an island, off the coast of an island.
Ha ha, yes. I had an American friend who bought waterside property on the Tamar River and would delight in telling his relatives that he lived down under Downunder.
It's beautiful but for someone like me from Tasmania, I find it unbearably hot and humid. It's also a long way away from major centres and has large tracts of World Heritage wilderness like Tasmania (their's is Tropical Rainforest, Tassie has Cool Temperate rainforest). To my mind (as a Tasmanian), Tassie and the Tropical Far North are two of the most beautiful parts of the country.
I’m from Melbourne and when I visit the in laws in cairns, I’m suffering, I can’t handle the humidity and heat, I would say that’s the reason but I agree I would like a video on it because there’s states in the USA like Florida and the Carolinas that are just as humid and have massive populations
I just left the far north QLD....... too many people are moving there now...and there's nothing being built to live in there. Renting is impossible and become expensive. Renting laws in Australia make renting a bad experience. I moved to Russia. Great place because of a great leader. Australia has very evil leadership. The media in Australia are known liars and together with the govt made Australia a joke.
I'm in the wheat belt north of Adelaide (about 800km/500mi NW of Melbourne) and Tasmania's climate is a big attractor for me; you can only deal with Australian mainland summers for so long before it gets to you, especially if you're like me and wearing shorts in 10C weather is no big deal. Go hibernate down in Tasmania between December and May while everyone on the mainland cooks
When I went to visit AUS, I also spent a week exploring Tasmania, it was gorgeous. If I could afford to move from the states and retire there, I would in a heartbeat.
I’m Tasmanian (moved to Melbourne). There’s no housing or any career opportunities, lack of public transportation, and the whole state feels like it has small town syndrome. As much as it is refreshing to go home every now and then, it’s not accessible enough to live and you’re forced to live in a specific way.
Got to agree. I moved from NSW to TAS many years ago (was only 13 at the time, so I had no choice). It's definitely a good place to visit on a holiday, or to retire, but there's a very good reason a lot of my high school friends moved to Melbourne or Perth in their early 20s. Most parts of the major cities do have good public transport coverage too, but the quality of service has dropped drastically since COVID started. Metro Tasmania's had such high staff turnover that they've had to reduce the number of buses running on weekdays, and the ones that still are are late most of the time. The government decided to halve bus fares for a year a couple of weeks ago though, so that's something.
I always heard Honolulu was the most isolated city, but it has under 500k people, the Island has approximately 1 million people, much smaller than Perth.
Wow, I can’t believe you made such a glaring omission: Why is it called Tasmania in the first place? Glad you asked. It was named after a Dutch Explorer named Abel Tasman….the FIRST European to sight the island in 1642. You mentioned a lot about the English…but it was the Dutch who first discovered it. It should have been mentioned I think. Thanks for listening.
When my dad was alive he used to tell me about Abel Tasman and his adventures…he fought with the Dutch East Indies Army in Indonesia….Tasman seems so exotic, mysterious and beautiful to someone up here in Canada.
I spent 4 months in Australia, 1 month of that camping in Tasi. Loved the place. It and Western Australia were my favorite parts of a wonderful country. I would move to Tasmania in a heartbeat.
Love tassie. Best place to live. The issue Tasmania faces is it only operates of 40% of the land whilst 60% is locked up in national parks and reserves, and yes this is a good thing to some degree, however it gets 70% of its money from federal government. So we get 30% from 40% of the land. The other problem is we need a railway system to connect the noth of the state to the south like a bullet train system so the state can pool it's infrastructures together and have specialist at hospitals instead of having to fly to the mainland. We have so much potential and beauty in Tasmania that if we become like the mainland we lose what makes us unique.
Just in regards to indigenous people, they were visited about 4,000 years ago by South Asian types (indians/ indonesians) who have left a small genetic mark. They are also responsible for bringing the Dingo to Australia from Asia. Europeans weren't the first colonists
I had a wonderful time when I visited Hobart when I was in the US Navy. I was able to visit Mt Field State Park when there was a lot of snow. I really loved it there, such a beautiful country. 😊
Cool vid Geoff. I am a born and raised Tasmanian living here in Hobart. Just fyi, Huon Pine is pronounced "Hew-on Pine" or "Hew-un Pine" (rather than "Who-On Pine") we also have the beautiful region called the Huon Valley! 🙏🏻 Also if you think the Tassie Devil is cool, spend a minute looking into the Tasmanian Tiger.
Loved how you summed up the history of Oz. If you are interested in such things, The Statute of Westminster in 1931 was the real legal independence from the UK, and other Dominions. The Australia Act was really an act involving Appointments, appeals, nationality and passports. For example, it settled the role of the Governor General, British Citizens had issues after it with coming and going without Australian nationality, the Australian Honors system was reinforced, and the final appeal in certain legal matters of law were decided by the Full Bench of the High Court, with no final appeal to the Privy Counsel. To Australians prior to 1973 there were a lot of advantages to retaining some British links, as the UK, and thus Europe, Canada, Nz etc were open to live and work. Many did. After UK legislation to slow South Asian and other immigration in 1973, Australians, Canadians and Nz'ers were caught up and more restricted in living and working in the UK. This started the rot to where we are today. Although, today the 4 countries of Australia, the UK, Canada, and Nz are now growing back closer together and those opportunities are returning.
Love visiting Tassie…..reminds me of Scotland but with Gum trees….stunning scenery, wonderful people…..and incredible flora and fauna….can’t wait to visit again from my own tiny island of Jersey….
Funny how we islanders all get about the place. Im originally from ireland, and migrated to Tassie in 1999, i also visited Jersey for a long weekend, circa 1994/95 , i loved the zoo! I had the nicest devonshire tea i ever had in the cafe there😂!
@@deepb249 no, not necessarily my friend, as there is not much sugar in the scone, and the jam can be replaced with fresh fruit or berries of your choice. ♥️.
Curiously, in a warming world, people counterintuitively prefer the warmer, sunnier regions of south Australia to cooler, wetter Tasmania. Likewise, here in the US, the population is gradually shifting to the warmer southern states. These trends undermine efforts to create climate panic.
Reality is, most of Tasmania has a very sunny climate, even in Winter which is not that cold. Summers are milder and much less humid than mainland Australia. Perfect climate really.
I'm one of the 577000 people that live in Tasmania.
It truly is a wonderful place to live, but don't tell everybody as we like it just as it is!
Also,that was the most scabby wombat I have ever seen.
I read a book (later made into a movie) a kid from India 🇮🇳 who was adopted by a couple in Hobart.
@@LegalShield3000 The film was 'Lion' based on the book 'A Long Way Home' by Saroo Brierley. Amazing true story.
My thoughts exactly. Actually it was a longer-nosed wombat so probably not a Tasmanian one.
I'm amazed to hear there are 577,000 people in Tasmania, I would have guessed like 100,000.
Im one of the many thousands of Tasmanians born and bred that couldn't get out of there quick enough. I still have a sentimental attachment to the place but there is zero chance I would ever want to live there again.
Tasmania is actually more habitable than Mainland Australia, because it has a cooler wetter climate similar to the UK, even though it is mountainous it doesn’t have earthquakes because the mountains are so old they are eroding away, it somewhat has a similar landscape to parts of Canada, Scotland or New Zealand. Tasmania is an absolutely phenomenal place!
Maybe it was formed by a volcano which may be dormant but not for long. BOOM
Correct!
@@davidjackson7281
There is a Basaltic region in the north, but it hasn't been active for tens of millions of years. The reason why the mountains are worn down comes from that stability. Nothing within Australia is pushing new mountains up from underneath, while rain keeps washing away the mountains we do have, so they have gotten... small and blunt.
@@lostbutfreesoulThanks for the info. Now l can feel more at ease knowing so. Would love to visit Tasmania. The mountains sound like they are as old as America's Appalachians.
what does it mean cool? what are typical temps there in your summer and winter? does it snow in the cities ?
As an Australian and having visited the state of Tasmania (Tassie) several times I can say that Tassie is the undisputed jewel in our crown.
It is an amazing place to visit, beautiful environment and has a fantastic local culture.
If you ever visit Australia....it is a must visit.
Are there lots of spjders there?
@@ssythx yes but don’t worry about them. They get about their life and business and don’t attack humans. You may never see one. Relax bro.
@@jonnythunder92 would you say tasmania has more spiders or less then the rest of australia though? Somes business is you 🤣
@@ssythx No they dont have more spiders than the rest of Australia....get a grip dude......seriously.
@@jonnythunder92 just checking
I grew up in Tasmania in the 1960’s & 70’s, a high percentage of my peers left Tasmania, for mainland Australia, after completing our education to find work. Some returned to raise families many didn’t. Unemployment is still a major concern but it is a stunning Island with a lot to offer. Tasmania gets into your blood and the pull is strong. I love going home to visit family.
I moved to the mainland for work in 2010. My immediate family all live in Hobart and surrounds and I go back at least once a year to visit. So I know what you mean.
I left for better work opportunities, went home to have a family and educate my kids, then we all left for better opportunities on the mainland again. Two of my kids have since moved back, Tassie will always be home.
Me too!
The brain drain reversed a bit until covid hit now its as bad as ever. There are just no opportunites and those that can escape will.
It feels like home to me even though I've never been there (or to Australia).
My wife and I came to Tasmania 18 years ago for a vacation and only left long enough to pack our lives up and move here. Never looked back.
Many people do that, it says a lot about a place.
Do you believe in thylacines?
@@hellovicki6779 And a lot move back. It's a fantastic place to take a holiday in, but the locals are incredibly parochial and narrow-minded and the winters are long and bleak.
I visited Tasmania once. There were more people in walking frames, wheelchairs and using walking sticks than walking upright. Not to mention the intellectual disabilities. I kid you not. I wish the department of statistics would do a study on the percentage per population of Tasmanians on welfare compared to the mainland states.
Let me guess - you're either wealthy, retired, or both wealthy and retired?
There's a reason why most young people here move to the mainland as soon as they are able. There's no opportunities here. No jobs, no housing, we get paid half that of people on the mainland for doing the exact same job etc. This is a great state if you're wealthy and old, but not so much if you actually want to succeed in life and not die in poverty.
Retired U.S. Navy. Whenever I am asked what was my most favorite place to visit...it was the port calls in Hobart, Tasmania! I visited Tasmania twice on two separate ships. I loved the ruggedness of the island, the history, surrounded by the ocean, the weather, and most importantly the people!! They are absolutely wonderful! I have even entertained the thought of retiring there, unfortunately the family has a way of pulling you back in...
The U.S. Navy just made itself a lifelong fan! One thing about being a slightly parochial little island is that we are (or at least I am) absolute suckers for a nice word said about us :)
Thanks!
@@lukehamilton5142 You are welcome my friend!!
I had the great pleasure to host some crew members of the USS Carl Vinson carrier here in Hobart back in the 1990's, they too loved the place.
@@philwardle7369 Thank you for your hospitality! I served aboard the U.S.S. Carl Vinson during the 1994 visit, and aboard the U.S.S. John C. Stennis during the 2000 visit. I am now 61 years old and have been retired from active duty since 2003. Maybe one day before it is my time, I may return and raise a "schooner" with my old friends! Please forgive me if I got the term wrong!!
@@CTREDNECKLL when did you visit? I was on the USS Prairie AD 15 in 1984. Returned in 1990 and been there ever since 😀
Im Tasmanian, my family were early settlers and I have a farm built in 1856 in the south. The stories go deep and i know so much history that many dont. But being so isolated i got curious with life, im currently writing from Thailand after travelling 31 countries in 7 years. Very few places are more beautiful than Tasmania, and it'll be sought after in years to come. Due to over 20% of it being protected by world heritage im so grateful for our farm. Something we will never sell. Truly grateful.
His cows get loose and run right through the fast food parking lots
And Daddy gets calls from the mini-malls
When they're downwind from his hogs
When his tractor backs up traffic, the reception ain't too warm…
Farm built in 1856, and family being early settlers they must have been involved in the “Black War”
Since you “ know so much history” tell us more about your family’s involvement in the genocide of the indigenous peoples and how they came about “owning” part of this beautiful land that you will now “never sell”
Will make interesting reading.
@@akirapillay9633 we've had the farm 80 years.
@@akirapillay9633I was waiting for some bullshit like this to appear under this comment. Sit down. How disgusting of you to chase hatred. This person isn't responsible and no one alive was harmed. Probably white yourself 🤣
@@brendand1937 2023 - 1856 does not equate to 80 years.
I am American and have a friend who lived in Australia for years and when I told him one of my bucket list places to visit was Tasmania, he got a puzzled look on his face and simply said "but why"? Apparently the mainlanders view Tasmanians as backward and the island as a whole as boring with not much there. That's exactly why i want to go there, for the natural aspects, and the quaintness. I've been to enough big cities.
Yes, we have 2 heads and marry our cousins and are the butt of so many jokes. But honestly, I never want the secret of my home state to get out.
I've lived in nearly every Australian state and in my opinion, Tassie is by far the most beautiful and it has the friendliest people. It's a running joke in the other states about Tassie. Yes, it's a slower paced life with a small population but that's its charm. The secret is getting out though - many mainlanders have been coming over and buying up the cheaper property, prices have doubled in the last few years, making it harder for locals. Hoping this influx doesn't change Tasmania too much, it's perfect as is 😊 Definitely a great little island for a 2 week road roadtrip, come check it out!
U will not be dissappointed!
MATE-YOU WILL BE WECOMED !-WE LOVE AMERICANS !
You are on the right track,from an old Aussie.
I am an Australian "mainlander" who will be moving to live in Tasmania's North West when I retire in October. I had never been to Tassie until the XMAS or 2016 and so enjoyed the landscape, the fresh air (the cleanest on Earth) and temperate climate, but most important was the friendliness of the locals. Everywhere we went the locals all knew we were visitors and they were extremely friendly and generous with their time. Having lived in Sydney for decades I really appreciated how personable the Tasmanians are, and this contributed to my wife and I deciding to buy a house on acreage there so we could retire on this loverly island state.
The cleanest air on earth is true most days when the Antarctica breeze is favourable, visibility is 25kms
i sir...let come with u to Tasmania..am from Kenya and speciality is agriculture..i can help run your farm..
10yrs in Tassie now, originally from Sydney, best thing I ever did.
I’m . a Tasmanian. I can assure that the vast majority of us like our State just the way it is.
Prove it, i don't see a second head or a "removal scar".. You just moved there from the mainland... right?
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@@fluffybunnyslippers2505 wrong. I was born at Beaconsfield Hospital in 1963. I lived in Launceston during the wonderful late 1960s. Launceston was like a little London at that time. It was swinging. The Beatles were at there best. It was what can be accurately described as Utopia.
Only thing that's bad is it's the most expensive state in austrailia!
That stupid statment is getting VERY old. You are just upset that Tassy won't let you in.@@fluffybunnyslippers2505
Good video.....what about the tyranny in Tasmania? Have you got rid of the scum globalist puppet politicians?
Fun fact:
The island state of Tasmania shares a land border with Victoria. Not many Australians know about this. The two states share the shortest land border in the country on Boundary Islet, located in the Bass Strait.
Yep waiting for the day this wins a pub quiz for me
185 ft.
@@stevewiles7132 85 meters or around 280 feet
so I can walk there on low tide ?🤣
As an Aussie, I had some idea, but did not know this. Yes, Trivia here we come ;-)
Type in Google Maps, Victoria, then zoom to -39.198459027278716, 147.02158165875082 and you'll see the boundary. 😎
I migrated to Australia in 1985 from UK and spent all my years since living various places on the mainland . I only recently took a trip down to Tasmania couple of years ago and again last year, its a gorgeous place crisp clean air , crystal clear ocean and rivers , fantastic seafood and local produce and No.1 has got to be the people, helpful ,friendly I also had my car with me which had NSW plates on it and other drivers were so courteous to us letting us in when I didn't know where I was going and finding myself in the wrong lane etc. I grew up in 1960s England and it reminded me a lot of that . I am now 63 and would move to beautiful Tassie in a heartbeat .
you should do this series but the opposite, why do so many people live in a region, for example java, the mountains in colombia, nigerian coast, etc
Fertile soil, river delta or volcanic
@@1wun1 those arent the only reasons
I like this subject idea. I don't know why so many people live in places that are so inhospitable to living. Like a lack of a source of fresh water and rain. A lack of food resources, etc. yet people still choose to live there in huge numbers.. like Vegas and any other region in the world that is densely populated but relies on water sources from different areas....
Like Bangladesh. So packed full of people. I would venture to say it is Overpopulated.
More people anywhere means couples are more active between the sheets and don't practice family planning. Just sayin...😊😊😊
It's quite something to stand on a beach on Tasmania's west coast. Did it at dusk in February, decades ago. The waves were roaring so loudly we could hardly hear each other speak; the waves seemed about 20ft high, the sky and sea were inky grey. It's amazing to stand there with your arms out, knowing that the wind is blasting at you from right around the planet!
All the boats coming to Australia from England would head south after the Cape of Good Hope in order to hitch a fast ride on the "Roaring Forties". They could make fast time there, as long as they did not smash on to rocks along the coast of Australia, which some did.
Tasmania's West Coast is that of very few places left that look like the Earth before the human race started to walk on two legs. Could only imagine what did you feel being there
@jaysmith3361 Stunning. I mean it's virtually untouched yet it's not some dull polar vastness or a generic sticky jungle but a lush forest on a rugged coast at the very edge of the world
I've also done this as the sun was setting. On the bluff above the a long beach in either direction of me and not another person in sight, with the wind roaring and blowing back my hair is incredibly spiritual. Then going down to swim as the only person on the beach was amazing.
@@ofacid3439
Bucket list for sure.
I’m not going to look it up on videos, I’m just going to go there and experience it without any preconception , besides your great writing. One day ❤
As a resident of Hobart, I'd like to tell you what Tasmania is really like. Firstly, Tasmania is the second dryest State in Australia. We get a fair bit of cloud cover but not a lot of rain. It can get windy at times, especially on the West Coast, but it's not always windy and we can always count on a cool seabreeze at the end of a hot summer's day which mainlanders cannot. We don't have a large population but that's how we like it. That's WHY we choose to live here because we enjoy a better quality of life, and it's why we don't want everyone to know what a great place it is to live. There are no crowds to contend with, no serious traffic jams, parking is easy wherever you go and it's safer to walk the streets on your own. Real estate is much cheaper here, most homes have spacious backyards, and we now have some of the strongest anti gun laws in the world, making gun crime almost non-existent. People are friendlier here, we have a vibrant arts culture, we host some awesome annual events, we have the coolest museum in the world - MONA, loads of wildlife, and a clean, scenic beach is never far away no matter where you live. Whilst our population is small, Tasmania is a popular tourist destination. 1.26 million people visited in 2023 alone. The State offers many scenic bushwalking and mountain climbing opportunities, incredible coastal scenery, magnificent snow capped peaks and some of the last remaining old growth forests in the world. The State offers excellent fishing, we have the cleanest air in the world and cleaner water than other cities. Tasmania has the highest ratio of boat ownership in Australia and has many wineries and historic buildings to explore. Yes the temperatures are cooler and, frankly, a lot more pleasant than the other States during summer, but nothing a roaring log fire won't fix in winter. Hobart is just an hour's flight from Melbourne so it's really not that isolated. Tasmanians really have so much to be grateful for, but please don't tell everyone.
G'day Stephanie, I'm another Hobartian and I couldn't agree more. Isn't it bizarre how foreigners view our home. This Yank pokes 'fun' at our low population like there's something wrong. He skews all the 'facts & figures' about Tasmania and tries hard to turn them into negatives. Twerp.
Like so many young Tasmanians, after school, I had to go to Melbourne because the jobs I wanted to do just weren't available here, at that time. I made a brief trip to New York for work but couldn’t imagine living there. I spent some time in the RAAF and then my wife and I wanted to live and work in Europe for a while. Venice and Paris were lovely cities and we stayed with friends in London.
Our last stop overseas was Dubai and I can tell you we couldn't get back to Tassie fast enough. That was over 30 years ago and we have no plans to live anywhere else on the planet.
We bought a really nice, cheap house on the Eastern Shore and had so much left over we renovated till we had our 'perfect' home.
Just before the Pandemic, we had planned to visit a few European cities again but decided against it. With all the strife, wars, shootings and other crazy stuff going on in the world these days; we'd be mad not to live here.
Cheers, Bill H.
Hobart is the second driest capital city, after Adelaide. Tasmania is most certainly not the second driest state, with the West Coast recording up to 3500mm per year.
@@bradencresswell2686 - exactly. Hobart is in rain shadow. "Hobart's" rain, for the most part, falls on the mountains to the west.
Aussie here, The wife and I just visited Tassie for the first time this year (in winter), and we were so smitten that before our current holiday even wrapped up, we had already locked in another one for next year. Absolutely fell in love with the place.
I've been to the Tasmanian capital of Hobart once. Despite being the second smallest capital city, it still felt vibrant and full of life. There was a charm about it that made me feel welcomed and the view of the snow capped peak of Mt Wellington in the background was amazing. I visited in late July which was the middle of Winter. Didn't feel terribly cold which either meant I was there during a warm spell or the weather isn't as dire as we are led to believe. Driving up to the Peak of Mt Wellington got cold with snow fall around the area which was just gorgeous. Hobart is honestly such a lovely city and the geographical location makes the scenery around the city amazing. I would love to visit Tasmania proper rather than just flying to the capital too however.
Even though the island has no road connections, it is serviced by the Spirit of Tasmania which is a ferry service that runs both day and night trips from Geelong, Vic to Devonport, Tas. It takes around 12 hours to make the trip by boat which carries people, cars and trucks. So it is possible to technically drive between Tasmania and the mainland. Because of the ferry service it is not unusual to see cars with Tasmanian registration plates driving about on the mainland. I am more surprised when I see a Western Australian or Northern Territory registration plate on the local roads as THEY came from far and beyond - And I live in South Australia which is in the middle of all the mainland states and territories so you would expect to see a mix of interstate registered cars!
As a Hobartian, I can attest that the weather is not nearly as bad as most mainlanders think. I've lived in Canberra and that is much, much colder.
Thank you for your great comments on Hobart! You were definitely here during an unseasonably warm July. I think it was one of the warmest on record. Spring has been cooler than winter this year. Enjoy your next visit, there’s a lot to see & enjoy here!
@@carokat1111 Having lived in both, I too can confirm this!
Hobart sounds like a wonderful place to visit. I'm way up in the United States so I may never venture that far unfortunately. But sounds similar in some ways to the way it is here. I live near Canada and go there quite a bit, and I would describe the smaller city of Halifax, Nova Scotia as being much more charming and enjoyable to visit than the bustle of Toronto, which population wise is probably much more comparable to Sydney.
@@knocknapeasta Yes, I still remember the bitterly cold Canberra winters I spent there during many school holidays as a kid over 40 years ago! I live in Hobart now and our weather is nothing compared to Canberra and the Southern Highlands area of NSW!
I appreciate that you've made a video about Tasmania, since a lot of Americans know little about it, but I have some issues with this. I hope one day you'll visit Tasmania, because I think a lot of the impressions you've gleaned from online research are skewed.
It's quite offensive to title the video 'Why "Nobody" Lives On Australia's Big Island State,' even with "nobody" in question marks. More than half a million people live there, or 2% of Australia's population. That's roughly equivalent to states like Massachusetts and Tennessee, and you wouldn't (I hope) say "nobody lives in Indiana" or describe Colorado as "empty."
Australia's population density is 3.35 per Km2, and Tasmania's is 8.44 per Km2, so from an Australian perspective Tasmania is not a "big, empty island," it's a small and relatively densely populated island.
0:11 Australia doesn't "own" Tasmania. It's a state of Australia.
0:17 Tasmania is "almost the exact same size as Sri Lanka," but that doesn't explain why you compare it to Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka is a country, not a state within a country, and like many Asian countries, it's overpopulated. There would be no good reason to compare Maine with Taiwan, or Rhode Island with Bangladesh.
4:07 Tasmania has a unique history, and most Australians wouldn't describe it as a "microcosm of Australia."
5:02 You compare Tasmania to Florida, which has "many millions more people," but Tasmania is closer in size to North Dakota, which has a population of 784,000. Again, you're deliberately comparing Tasmania to densely populated areas to make it seem "empty" rather than looking at it in the context of its own country and culture.
5:07 You say "the island's terrain is predominantly mountainous, a stark contrast to much of mainland Australia's flatter landscape overall," with a shot of the desert. It's this kind of thinking that leads Americans to erroneously conclude that Australia has no mountains! The landscape of Australia is huge and diverse. Much of it is desert, but we don't regard the desert as typical and all other landscapes in Australia as unusual. Many Australian states and territories are mountainous. We have a ski season, and a mountain range we call "The Australian Alps." Deliberately contrasting Tasmania's mountainous regions with desert areas on the mainland is like saying Vermont is unusual and New Mexico is normal.
5:52 You contrast the mainland's "long, sandy beaches" with Tasmania's "steep cliffs," but you've shown Queensland's Gold Coast, over a thousand miles to the North as the crow flies. Much of Australia's coastline has "steep cliffs," and Tasmania has many "long, sandy beaches," so the contrast wouldn't make sense from the perspective of an Australian.
6:20 You say Tasmania has "higher rainfalls" and a "far greener landscape compared to much of Australia." This is misleading. As you say at 6:30, most of the rainfall is on the sparsely populated wilderness areas of the West Coast. Hobart, on the East Coast, is actually Australia's second-driest capital city. It's not "far greener" than most populous areas.
6:50 "Huon" is pronounced "HYOO-un." :)
5:59 Tasmania does not "[exist] as something of an afterthought in terms of Australian migration." In addition to the original inhabitants who lived here for thousands of years, it was one of the two earliest British colonies in Australia, and as I mentioned earlier, has a population density around 2.5 times higher than the rest of Australia. There have also been many waves of immigration from within Australia and from countries like China, Nepal, India, the Netherlands and most recently South Sudan.
8:15 The climate is not a "huge deterrent," and you've erroneously characterised Victoria as "warm/sunny" and Tasmania as "cool/wet." The temperature difference between Tasmania and Victoria is only a couple of degrees, and while Tasmania's West Coast is "wetter," the East Coast (where most of the population is concentrated) is drier - much more so than Melbourne, which has a significantly higher rainfall.
8:52 You describe Hobart as "isolated," but you haven't mentioned that it's a flight time of only 1 hour and 20 minutes, and it's a port city.
9:59 Finally, you say "so few people" live in Tasmania because it's "one of the windiest regions in the world." This honestly is the first time in my life I've ever heard this. The Roaring Forties were historically viewed as advantageous, and while they certainly batter the West Coast, the East Coast of Tasmania (again, where most of the population lives) is not typically regarded as windy.
11:48 It's true that Tasmania became the first Australian state to become 100% powered by renewable energy, but you seem to attribute this entirely to wind farms, when Tasmania has actually relied on a very successful hydroelectric scheme for more than a century.
It's a good thing that you made a video about Tasmania, but I think you've read a bunch of facts and put them together in some strange ways that give an erroneous impression of the state. The perspective you took, that Tasmania is a "big, empty" island is skewed. From an Australian perspective it's a small island with a reasonably high population density. I think if you'd instead asked yourself why more than half a million people live there, instead of asking why more people don't, the conclusions you arrived at would have been better informed.
@@BooRadleyTube best youtube comment ever!
Great research. 🥇
Spot on in every detail. A post with far more useful, accurate information than the video managed.
Tasmania has had a long history of Hydro Electric power, and has produced renewable energy to power the island for well over fifty years. Whilst there are wind farms there with plans to build more, you’ve missed the story that the island already has a long history of 100% renewable energy production.
I am disappointed the King Island wind farm did not go ahead.
Tasmania has had hydro-electricity since 1895 lol
For some reason, a lot of the people in power hate Hydro-Electric Dams….I live in the Pacific Northwest in the US and they have been tearing them all down for the past decade…🤷🏼
@@aaronbriscoe2908 ecoterrorists are in control there. they favor animals over humans. they fail to realize that humans are animals too.
Well, time to move there Redshift6! GO!
I immigrated to Australia and lived in Tasmania for 2 years. I couldn't find a decent job so I moved to a larger city on the mainland. The weather is okay but the summer heat feels like radiation from a nuclear explosion. I met so many friendly, hospitable people there. People I met were very family orientated. The beaches are so beautiful and uncommercialized.
Yep the Sun packs a punch thanks to how clean the air is.
Oh no not this myth that Tasmania is hot... Cos of the ozone layer they say. That's a joke, I lived there and never had the chance to go for a swim it's so cold. Try Brisbane or Darwin or even Perth or Adelaide for real heat
It's not that cold. It just has proper seasons. It gets plenty hot in January and February@@MrPorkncheese
@@cavanray5327 Proper seasons without a summer. It rarely gets over 30 there
@@MrPorkncheese Tasmania does summer better then the rest of the country does winter. 25 degrees and clear skies is summer enough thankyou. Just because the mainland gets above 30 constantly doesn't mean that's the standard of summer everywhere.
I have 12 convict ancestors, most of whom were sent to Van Diemens Land
My first relative in Australia arrived in 1788 as part of the first fleet.
My first relatives in Tasmania came after Norfolk Island was shutdown.
I left Tasmania in 2008 but decided to return permanently in 2016.
Your information is good, however what you say about Tasmania’s renewable energy is primarily through hydro electricity which accounts for 80% of our electricity. Tasmania exports power to the mainland through the Bass Link Cable.
My family (wife, 2 kids and I) moved to Tasmania in 2011 from Western Australia and it was the best decision we ever made. I went from a 3 hour daily commute across the scorched landscape of Perth to a 30 minute commute from the beautiful Huon Valley to Hobart. The small population here means everything is accessible and comfortable. We we warned about the “harsh” weather before coming but you adjust to the occasional -3c days in Winter and on some days you can spend the morning at the beach and the afternoon in the snow with only an hour between them. I now work outside only a few minutes from home and wear shorts all year round when working. This place is paradise. I couldn’t help but laugh when you identified Devonport and Burnie as the northern towns and not Launceston because the folks in Launceston are a little sensitive about not being the centre of the world. 😂
Yes, it's lovely, the Huon Valley is stunning. I stayed in WA though, Tassie's infrastructure has a long way to go to catch up. I wouldn't blame Perth for your 3 hour commute. I'm 35kms from Perth in a rural location, takes me 45 mins to get to the city. New schools, hospitals and other facilities are the result of WA's booming economy, so Tassie will remain a holiday destination for us.
@@GreenDistantStar Perth is a dead dry place
@@ryanh438 good, stay away. while we all live the dream.
@@GreenDistantStar Keep living yoyur dream and wish you lived in Sydney. The most peaceful place
@@ryanh438 Sydney has devolved into a traffic-plagued shit-hole. Enjoy your 3 hour daily commute, dog-box living, crowded beaches and toll-roads forever.
Plot twist: Tasmania is empty because it's haunted by the Tasmanian devil.
Yes...devils.
He puts the Tas in Tasmania
Down in Tasmania
Come to Tasmania
We mean YOU!
The Tasmanian Devil will eat anything! Especially Rabbits!😂
Sarcophilis Satanicus.
SARCOPHILUS SATANICUS!
Moved to Tasmania from Western Australia 9 years ago. It's a heavenly place. Wilderness areas where nobody lives ( no roads and only a few settlements in the West of the island. Historic buildings. Wineries,Cider houses, Restaurants and some beautiful places to stay. Yes its cooler , we even have snow on the hills. However I live on a bay so no snow for us yet. We love our island home.
It seems inaccurate when discussing Tasmania achieving 100 percent renewable electricity generation to show pictures of wind turbines. The far larger contribution that those westerly winds make to renewable energy is to bring the rain, and perhaps snow, that enable hydropower to generate over eighty percent of the states electricity.
Half of Tasmania is surprisingly dry due to the rain shadow caused by the mountains of the west coast.
The central area to the east of the western tiers is the cold arid zone. you drive through it going from Launceston to Hobart and surrounds the town of Ross. What the Scotts that settled the area discovered is that this climate caused the Merino sheep to produce finer micron wool which has been further enhanced by breeding and a thriving trade in wool back to Britain from here and elsewhere in Australia put a lot of their kindred Scots out of work as the Weaving Barons of central and Northern England wanted the finer wool and not the traditional course Scottish wool. Tassie is a beautiful place with such a diverse geography and I would live there in a heartbeat if I could. Please don't overpopulate it and destroy it's character. Interesting fact, Hobart and Launceston are the second and third oldest settlements in Australia. Both are older than Melbourne and all the other capitals except Sydney.
@@frasercrone3838 Videos made by non-Australians who will probably never visit the place are not helping to keep Tassie the secret it has been. It'll be overun & ruined in no time. I lived there for 14 years. Not for the faint hearted.
@@frasercrone3838 Also, it has stark dead trees sillouetted against looming skies, while gorse flowers on stark hillsides under looming skies...
We are on the West Coast and it is anything but dry. Moved here from Sydney nearly 21 years ago
@@jenniferpalmer2337 I said rain shadow caused by the west coast… the west coast gets utterly deluged
You open the video asking why Tasmania only has 2% of Australia's population. Would the fact that it only has 0.9% of Australia's land area have anything to do with that ?
@@AndyOlesin or the tazmanian devil spinnjng around.
Not really
People are moving to Tasmania. House prices went through the roof during covid. Working remotely let many people shift from the big cities on the mainland.
Before that I know alternative types who bought land, one couple bought a small farm with dams to live a self-sufficiency lifestyle, another bought a forest block to build a retirement home. Both with an eye to avoiding global warming on the mainland.
Both south of Hobart.
I think the problem is more the age of the population than the size of it. The people moving in are all older, while a lot of the young people born there move to the mainland. It's gradually turning into a nursing home.
Global Warming is a hoax. And, Tasmania is on the same planet/globe as mainland Australia.
Chinese probably hurd house was cheap there. And decided to change that by buing up properly like they been doing on the mainland
Housing got expensive when interest rates were low and superannuation became mandatory in the 90's.
For many mainlanders Tasmania was a cheap place for investment properties in beach suburbs
@@adrienneclarke3953 - Industry superannuation had no effect on housing, because it diverted income into long-term saving. Maybe SMSFs because they're the people who could rapidly exploit the system and then bid up prices. The fundamentals are the capital gains / negative gearing system which turned housing into a casino and did not deliver the supply promised.
I lived in Tassie for 12 years, and loved the place. The people are friendly, the air is clean, and housing is more affordable (though still expensive) than on the mainland. I lived in Launceston in the north, which has retained many of it's beautiful old buildings. The winters are relatively cold, but it's a fair trade-off for avoiding the blistering heat of the mainland summers. I hope to return one day, when circumstances permit.
Housing prices now are the same or at par as melbourne.
The quality of houses in Tasmania is not so great. Most of the houses being built in 1930-40s with limited rental options. Its a nightmare.
@loupashire
Tasmanian cities are legit dead cities, weather is so freaking awful and rent are almost the same as Melbourne sydney
But on the other hand, the population density of Tasmania is nearly 3x that of Australia. In other words Tasmania is 3x more crowded than Australia.
Not surprised with all the Chinese and Indian immigrants
@@chloeleedow7250no lol, it’s because most of the population lives on the coast and the majority of the country is desert. What are you even on about?
@@svejIebw I live here and immigration is a problem the government has inundated us with unskilled migrants of the Indian variety! ✌️
Watching this video from Hobart, Tasmania. This place has its flaws but it’s home and I bloody love it.
Greatest State in Australia. Hobart is the best city in Australia. Melbourne boy here. Now living in Central Vic.
Bro, are u real people?? does Australia really exist? we are told there is no Australia, but a path that leads to the Atlantida@@davidbrayshaw3529
@@tig79rover91 I wouldn't really call it a "path", as such. More like a couple of stepping stones. Just go South Sou East from China through South East Asia, and we're the last stepping stones. Tasmania's the little one at the bottom. Just watch where you put your foot down because of snakes and stuff. And don't go in the water.
wow! mate, have u been there?@@davidbrayshaw3529
Im born and raised in Tassie (64 years).Just to give a perspective Holland is 2/3 the size of Tassie with 17 million people ,we have low crime and no wars as there are no neighbours to fight with , if you like out door activities its a great place , I have driven around ,bush walked ,kayaked ,sailed ,dived and motorbiked all over Tassie and still haven't seen it all ,once talked to a mainlander (what we call people from the big island to the north) who on her first visit done 3 weeks travelling around and said she needed to come back for another 3 weeks as there was so much to see here .Also the island is diverse the west coast is different to the east coast and the central highland are different again ie weather ,scenery and vegetation, also weather is not extreme here it can get a bit cold over winter ,I live in Burnie and only see snow here once in 30 years and summers aren't scorching hot like on north island , we could probably do with a population growth to help support more diverse industries here , but like most tasmania's we dont want to many people here as its pretty good the way it is
Great ❤️
Well explained
Lucky you!
I moved from mainland Australia to Tasmania, the best move I've ever made. Better seasonal climate, friendlier cities and communities, and amazing landscapes.
I would like to point out that UTAS - the University of Tasmania is highly regarded around the world and attracts students to study here, with campuses across the state, this also helps boost our economy in indirect ways. Tasmania is also one of the key launching points for researchers whose expertise lies in Antarctica also. We also have the highest quality produce, clean air and water than most of the mainland cant boast about. There’s a fair bit going on in our little island.
It blows me away that UTAS is considered good, They have been in decline for a decade. Maybe its just the marine and environmental studies that are decent quality.
I'm a UTAS graduate, both my sons are UTAS graduates, and they have done well out of it. But we all know UTAS under the current Vice Chancellor Rufus Black is facing more questions than he has answers.
UTAS have carried out research into Tassies origins, very interesting their geology dept. carried out some research to prove it was originally part ot the north coast of America sandwiched between what we know as The Arctic and North West America. I had an American passenger in my Cab from Hobart Airport who told me how much like Montana Tassie is. Check it out very interesting Nothing todo with Australia🤥
Tasmania is awesome but I can’t believe no one has mentioned the quirky like Binalong Bay with all the houses with their own “Bin….” name, or how Tassie is the largest producer of the Poppy cultivars responsible for Thebaine (or OxyContin, 85%) and Oripavine (an opioid, 100%) of the global supply plus 25% of the global opium and codeine production and medicinal cannabis is grown in southern Tassie. In terms of global healthcare pain relief that tiny state produces over half of the raw materials required. What about the monkeys in the park in Launceston or Australia’s most loveable criminal (after Ned Kelly), Chopper Read lived there for years. The Cat and Fiddle Arcade in Hobart with the cat and fiddle clock which plays the nursery rhyme … Pink Eye Potatoes which you literally can’t buy anywhere else in the country EVER! Huon Pine, everything Huon Pine especially at Salamanca Market in Hobart. The Black Heart Sassafras from Tassie is the best but the only other place that grows it is South Australia anyway. 😁
My wedding was the first one held in the conservatory at the Hobart Royal Botanic gardens after its anniversary overhaul (60th I think) in 1999.
Such a beautiful place to live and raise a family, it’s rich in history and while it can be as dangerous as anywhere else (I was assaulted by 4 people and left bleeding in the street after they were frightened off by a little old lady who called them cowards before calling the police for me) I found there are more friendly and kind people there than anywhere else in the country. They just believe in each other more.
Chopper Read ‘loveable’? Charismatic maybe, but far from loveable.
Indeed, it is mostly for economic and historical factors Tasmania has low population, if it was just for isolation. New Zealand is even more isolated, but has a robust economy and it's a powerhouse for its region
agree, economics....unless you're either forced by immigration law, your work or cashed up green changers for going to TAS
However isn't it just the north island of New Zealand with all the population and the south island much less because of the harsher climate and terrain? I would argue the underdevelopment of these areas actually makes them superior. Man hasn't ruined as much of the natural environment in these places.
@digitalfootballer9032
For someone like me who originally grew up in Tasmania, I've always thought that it's geographically and temperately similar to NZ's North Island, but culturally (lifestyle) more similar to NZ's South Island. Having never visited New Zealand of course, it's just my observation.
I rest my case, it's Tasmanians. Maybe we should have a breeding programme with the Kiwi's to see if a wider gene pool will help....
The Tasmanians were a distinct people, isolated from Australia and the rest of the world for 12,000 years. In 1803, British colonisation began and in 1876, Truganini died. She was the last full-blood and tribal Tasmanian Aboriginal.
For 12,000 years the Aborigional Natives lived in harmony on Van Diemens Land/Tasmania - in 40 years they were wiped out - the colonisers walked across the Island in a row killing them - Quote - James Cook in 1777 also played his part in clearing hordes of the local populace from the island. But it was the British in 1803 who drove home the final nail. It was estimated that 7,000-8,000 indigenous Tasmanians were finally killed off within twenty-seven years of the British colonization.
Sad to read this. Really heartbreaking. The British left a trail of destruction everywhere they went. A ruthless Northcote presided over the killing of hundreds if not thousands of our people too in 1904.
Think you under sold the ruggedness of the west coast and central areas. Nearly half the island in uninhabitable unless you’re nomadic. Getting roads in there is nigh on impossible and with no roads: no population.
Thanks to this the island’s inhabitable area is a lot less than its actual size.
It may be a bit of a stretch, but i would like to see why most Zambians cities live in a vertical line in the center of the country
My guess on that one is, like Egypt, most every city is along a river. Can't grow food in the desert.
It's the ley~lines. Like, I dunno, druids or witch~doctors or some sh1+...
@@James-xf4pcdeserts make the best places to grow food. Egypts population in the nile is the desert.
@@richiehoyt8487Exactly
The railroad.
Please go to Tasmania some day. It is the smallest populated state (though not as small as Northern Territory) but it certainly is not "empty". It is a VERY popular tourist destination, has MANY delightful towns, and 2 or 3 larger cities. "Empty" is just a non sequitur, and a false one.
Beg to differ mate, after 5pm , you legit won't see anything open. Most of the restaurants shut at 7. Except a handful of them are open in Hobart.
Tasmania is beautiful. I have taken the Spirt of Tasmania there and flown from Melbourne. I love it there. I can't wait to go back.
Also no air pollution. The prevailing winds produce the cleanest air on earth.
Lol thats bullshit. air pollution in winter is horrendous here because everyone has their fire places burning
Simply its economics and geography. Tasmania has small harbours and to far south for economic development. Its mostly a rural area, mountains and old forests which we are very protective about
I am Indonesian lived in Malaysia for 4 years , Thailand for 4 years and Victoria for 14 years. I have been to Tasmania many times and if i could i would move there, in a heartbeat. Perhaps one day.
The whole Tasmania is so beautiful 😍
I'm Indonesian, I visited Tasmania back in December 2017. I really love the atmosphere and landscape! People are nice as well! I'm going to visit New Zealand next month, I can't wait to see their fellow Anglo brothers across the ditch!
Queensland is more interesting in Australia.
Tasmania is the Aldi version of NZ
@@seamusobrien2675 Why?
How did a demonic mythical entity from East Africa get to Tasmania? Ans: Same way as everyone else, on the Able Tasman @@robertwatson9940
@@robertwatson9940 Nah sorry I'm not interested in hot desert areas, save for Arizona and Nevada. I've enough of heat in this country, it'd be refreshing to enjoy faux Europe just next to our doorstep.
I have a friend who graduated from the univ in Tasmania and they still keep complimenting and still plan to go back to Tasmania today but due to their work they sill never go back
I visited Tasmania in November 2019. It is very beautiful. Awesome beaches, cliffs, waterfalls, temperate rainforests, snowy mountains, and unique wildlife. The Tasmanians are very nice. I highly recommend visiting Tasmania if you can!
tasmania has a very high crime rate. always lock your doors
Before watching the video I'll say that I always wondered why the low population for Tasmania, as for climate the southeastern portion of Australia is densely populated, and the island for its latitude could provide a even more temperate and even colder climate, suitable for the Scottish immigrants when Australia was being colonized.
It's decided balmy compared to Scotland which lies at 55 - 60 degrees north, while we are only 40 degrees south. I remember freezing in Scotland, and I MUCH prefer Tasmania.
There are a lot of Scots-inspired place and street names here - Perth, Ross, Campbell Street, Argyle Street. One of the Highland regiments spent a lot of time here in the early days of colonisation.
Victorian era British considered the Tasmanian climate amongst the healthiest in the world.
That's me! A Scottish immigrant, I mean. I lived on the mainland for 14 year, mainly in Queensland, before moving to Tas. It reminds me of Scotland and the border country between England & Scotland. It is the most un-Australian-looking state of all.
And the only state without a desert.
0:36 That man-bun makes me think two things:
That you might be a character from Crash Bandicoot, and that I wish I could be too.
@ 4:59 Florida is more than 2 times larger than Tasmania. I'm not sure where you got that stat from, but Tasmania is closer to the size of West Virginia.
Filthy American non metric units probably.
I think he was using the 68,401km^2 for tasmania vs the 65758 miles^2 for florida and forgot about units
For a good comparison, Tasmania is roughly the same size as Ireland.
Tasmania will exist in a hundred years whereas Florida will be part of the Atlantic Ocean.
quite right geoff made a big mistake there. I think the confusion arises because florida's area is usually stated in square miles and tassie area is written in square kilometers
I love hearing about Australia from an American perspective. I live in Cairns in the far north of Queensland. Northern tropical Australia is another anomaly with far less people than it should have given its abundant rainfall and proximity to Asia. Like Tasmania, the Northern half of Australia is often forgotten by those in Canberra.
I heard cairns had flood issues
Also isn't the north coast of the country hit by a lot of cyclones? Not that it stops people in America, Florida has the most hurricanes and still has a huge population.
@@100percentSNAFU you forgot to mention Japan, Korea, China, the Philippines and many others while you were so busy bashing America for living within their country.
Northern Queensland is stunning, but if you work outside with a physical job it’s horrendous with the heat and humidity
My in laws live in cairns and while I’m blown away by its sheer beauty, I keep saying “it looks like Jurassic park, where’s the clever girl hiding” but honestly I suffer in the humidity, it reminds me of southern china, I can’t do it, and my in laws are tough Aussies who don’t like air con but fresh air, so I really suffer lol it was only 28 degrees but the humidity man, us southern states don’t vibe with that humidity, we like our dry air 😂
Regarding bushfires. In the past controlled burns during the cooler winter months reduced the fuel loads of dead leaves and tree branches. Unfortunately the Green movement virtually put an end to this practice so fuel loads on the ground have built up. Most fires are deliberately lit by arsonists.
lies
@ lies ? Strong argument.
I had a chance to hike the overland track in Tasmania, it was a treat. I was so impressed at how much work was done on the trails, there were long sections of boardwalk to avoid muddy stretches. People were friendly and it was a life memory.
@@spelunkerd My dad - Garth Foley was the first person to set the running time for the overland track before there was a boardwalk.. almost broke his ankle but I think he completed the run in about 9 hours. I feel the time is now down to 7 hours.
My prime reason for moving to Tasmania 15 years ago from NSW was to escape suburban overcrowding and highrise apartment living. Landing in Hobart and being driven around the same I thought I stepped through a time tunnel 25 years into the past I was delighted. After 8 years of living on the outskirts of Hobart and being time to retire we purchased property in the far NW of Tasmania just about as far NW as you could go and never looked back. Yes, winters are cold and wet, summer however is pleasant and mild, and it took us three winters to acclimatize to the weather. One 🤣 at mainlanders arriving to live on this island paradise, spend one winter here and scurry back to their mainland warm nests. We care not why our population is so small, we want to keep it that way.
I've known Tas destroy marriages. Some people fall in love with the place, and won't (or can't) leave. Others rush back to the Mainland after one wet, cold, windy winter.
It's an island, and islanders have a different relationship to the land.
I live in rural Wales, U.K and mainland Australia has never seemed attractive to me. Tasmania seems like paradise, and coming from coastal Wales I'm used to wind and rain.
What you forget is mainland Australia doesn't want more boat people coming 🤪
@@JaneNewAuthorand your sisters 🤪
@@Deb.-.What a disgusting perspective. People become locals over time. People assimilate to the regions they move to.
I was born in the 80s and grew up in Hobart in the 90s, I moved to Melbourne in 07. I lived in Hobart however my family was from the far south and that’s where I felt most at home. I think the country side and coastal regions are absolutely beautiful and I do miss being so close to these incredibly beautiful locations, i think Hobart itself these days feels far busier than it used to, I don’t visit much now, but it will always hold some special memories. Melbourne lately has become far too busy for our roads and infrastructure to support the population boom in the last 20 years, even Sydney feels more laid back now.
4:58 Florida has a larger land area of 53,625 sq mi (138,887 km2) while Tasmania has an area of 68,401 km2 (26,410 sq mi). Source is Wikipedia. I can see how you might’ve thought Florida was smaller if you were comparing square miles to square kilometers
Wow, twice the size. So he was off by a factor of two. Good catch!
Nope, a factor of 1.60934
@@Michael-D.-Williams when converting between square kilometers and square mikes you would use (1.60934)^2 as the conversion factor because it is area and not length
@@closmasmas9080 Yes, and that's a FACTOR of 1.60934
The Mercator projection may have something to do with it. Florida is at 28N, while Tas is at 42S. That difference may be small but it does make Tas look larger on a flat map.
Melbourne and Hobart being 370 miles apart isn’t too crazy. In Denver, the nearest comparable size city is Albuquerque which is 340 miles away.
Gotta remember that's an interstate highway corridor tho, not a boat ride over a very windy strait.
One day when Melbourne reaches over 8 million people and an undersea high speed rail network is established between Victoria and Tasmania, things will change in a major way.
@@MarcoCholo-iz9js is that being discussed?
@@E4439Qv5 no because there has never been a high speed rail link at those ocean depths before or for that distance and Melbourne isn't edging on 8 million at the moment.
But by the 2050s that might become a totally different proposition.
@@MarcoCholo-iz9js In the meantime you could catch a ride on one of the pigs that fly back and forth over the Bass Strait .
It’d be quicker !
I'd like to see an episode similar to this that explains why so many more people live on New Zealand's North Island than South Island.
Yeah, good point. I would like to know too given that earthquakes happen in Auckland
The weather.
MORE PUBS !!
I'm a North Islander and this is a easy question to answer. The majority of the South Island's land area is either mountainous and/or National Parks and therefore not suitable for urban development. Secondly, the climate. The South Island is a lot colder and wetter than the North Island. Thirdly, economic opportunities. There are far more job opportunities in the North Island. It's not uncommon to find North Islanders who've never been to the South Island.
He showed you that the south island of NZ lines up exactly with Tasmania. There is your answer.
I visited Tasmania during my first trip across Australia and it was absolutely stunning, and the people who live there are incredibly kind! I went to Devenport, Launceston and Hobart! Winter was rolling in during my time there and I experienced snow which is something I never thought I’d come across in Australia! The cities are beautiful and the wildlife, forests and mountains are stunning. If I could live anywhere in the world, I’d most likely choose Tasmania!
Wild life! Yep! For all my glowing words elsewhere here, that reminded me of another aspect of Tasmania. It's the road kill capital of the world. Many European visitors are 'blown away' by the carnage on the roads.
Plenty of snow and ski fields on the main land.
As someone who lives both on the main land and on the north west coast of Tasmania, I have thoroughly enjoyed your presentation Geoff - it sums up the geography very well - I personally feel that Tassie is a paradise on earth, and love every minute we spend here. Perhaps it is a bonus that so few people live here.
I moved to Tasmania about 11 years ago after spending 40 years on the mainland (Sydney and Newcastle). Absolutely love it here. One of the more interesting things about Tasmania is that we have a huge amount of roadkill. Every single day I drive in my car I will see a dead animal on the side of the road. Sad, but it actually means that there is a huge amount of animals living here. Wallabies and echidnas are common on my front lawn.
Am I right in thinking there are less snakes and spiders, if any, than mainland Australia? That sounds a big plus to me.
@@therespectedlex9794 I was wondering that also.
@JohnDoe-cf8jz Actually there are three venmous snakes, the tiger, copperhead and white lipped. There are also several venemous spiders, but most (of the worst) cause pain and sickness, not death.
@@therespectedlex9794 Thanks for the update. I'm not a fan of really hot places or where much of the flora and fauna seem to want to kill people. Maybe I'll get to visit Tasmania some day, seems a nice place.
@@JohnDoe-cf8jz No probs, happy travels.
Lived in Sydney, NSW until I couldn't stand the heat anymore. - 35-40C. Have been in Tassie since 2009 and love its temperate zone which suits me perfectly.
which part are you living in?
I'm a climate refugee from Sydney as well.
You'll barely get 1% of days in Sydney that are 35°C and over.
climate change will probably chase you down to antartica next
Tasmania can still hit 40 degrees. Just way less often than the mainland.
My brother in law was born and raised in Hobart. My sister, him and my niece and nephew are currently visiting Tassie.
I’m from the UK. My partner has family there and I worked and lived there for 6 months this year. Tassie feels like a second home and paradise.
It is a paradise, mostly because of the people there.
I might have one reason why 'Nobody' lives in Tasmania. I live in Canada, and we have signs in rural areas describing the fire risk. You drive by and it says the that the fire risk in the area is Low, Medium, High or Extreme. So, you know whether starting an outdoor fire is a good idea or not, or even allowed. Well, I visited Tasmania a few years ago, and they have the same kind of signs, However, their signs have a level beyond Extreme - Catastrophic. They also have wildfire evacuation sites - places to evacuate to when the wildfires really get out of control. We don't have those. Apparently eucalyptus trees burn really, really, really well.
They can sort of explode. The high temperatures of an adjacent bushfire can ignite the oil and fumes in them and they just burst into flame.
Those fire signs stating 'Catastrophic' are used in the entire country. As you can appreciate, that's a rare event. Evacuation sites are simply designated areas like a football field or stadium where people can congregate during natural disasters. I'm 60 and thankfully never had to use anything like that and nor have I experienced bush fire.
December 2022 had the privilege of hiking the 3 Capes of Tasmania's Tasman National Park. One of the greatest trips ever, highly recommended for rugged, wild beauty. On the other hand, Hobart's Museum of New and Old Art, MONA was a cultural and culinary highlight. Tasmania is a bucket list destination for Australians and foreigners who enjoy the outdoors, farm to table fine dining, wineries, art and friendly kind locals. What's not to like?!
My wife and I vacationed in Tasmania when I was stationed in the outback with the US Air Force. We loved it!!! We stayed 9 nights…3 in one place, 3 in another, and the last 3 in Hobart. We had great food and the people were awesome! Most of our American friends went to New Zealand…we picked Tasmania. The Bass Straight was a little rough on the way down…but still fun! Highly recommend a vaca in Tasmania!!!!!!!!!!!
One very famous person who has left Tasmania is Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark, Countess of Monpezat, R.E. (born Mary Elizabeth Donaldson) who was born in Hobart and met Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark in a bar at the Sydney Olympics in 2000. They were married in 2004 in Copenhagen.
Ah, so you have a reptialian infection there too. Such a pity that invasive species has made its way to your shores too.
Hi Geoff! There are many of us that watch your channel that use the metric system. I'm sure people would love it if you used both!!
Great video about Tasmania and why "nobody" lives there!
Keep up the good work!!!👍
yeah nearly 600 thousand of nobodys. I don't know how it was a good video with such inaccurat 'facts' he espoused.
I moved to Hobart from Sydney about 2 years ago and I have to rebut some of your points pretty hard.
1. Tasmania offers the best beaches I've ever seen in my life. They're extremely convenient to major population centres too. It is true that 9 months of a year it's not swimming weather, but the same can be said of Melbourne.
2. In an automated world, there's just as much work in Tasmania as anywhere else and Tasmania's official unemployment rate is nearly identical with that on mainland Australia.
3. While the roaring 40s make the west coast pretty uninhabitable, weather in Hobart is generally better than in Sydney, and very happily cooler. As I write Sydney has just experienced its second stormy 40 degree C day in December where, here in Hobart, it was calm and cloudless with a top of 26, just as it should be.
4. The REAL reason no one lives here is most Australians have no idea Tasmania is such a very nice place to live. Indeed I'm violating the code by telling you any of this. Let the crowded mainland parboil along with the rest of the crowded and idiotic world. We Tasmanians are happy in our unspoilt, peaceful and plentiful lifeboat.
Mount Kosciuszko is the highest peak on the Australian mainland.
Australia's highest peak (if you exclude our Antarctic claims) is Mawson Peak on Heard Island.
Visiting Heard Island is literally a life goal of mine. Breathtaking
And it looks like a Mountain. Kossie doesn't
⚠ Sorry, you made a mistake: Australia's tallest mountain is "Big Ben" 2,745 m (9,006 ft). "Mount Kosciuszko" is the highest mountain on the mainland 2,228 metres (7,310 ft)
Honestly visiting Tasmania was one of my favorite parts of visiting Australia.. but I'd move near Sydney or Brisbane first because I couldn't stand the weather in Tasmania year round. It was an amazing place to visit though.
Sydney? Not if my life depended on it! Over populated, over priced and full of people who don't want to be there, unless they own a $15 m. house overlooking the harbour and can walk to work. Brisbane is a different kettle of fish. Melbourne's good if you can afford to live fairly close to the city and close to public transport, but the suburbs are a dump.
@@davidbrayshaw3529Sounds like you just hate the country, you should try another one.
@@ElusiveTy Australia has some great places to live, I live in one. But it is also home to some of the greatest 5h!tholes
on Earth. Well, maybe not that bad, but there are plenty of places that you don't need to visit here, let alone live in.
I have lived in Tasmania since 1998. It has its plusses and minuses. Natural beauty in Landscape and clean environments are the big pluses, healthcare and work opportunities are the negatives. Isolation has its pluses and minuses.
As a born and bred Tasmanian, we like it the way it is, thanks.
Major benefit of Tasmania is that we do not have the same level of madness incumbent on the mainland.
I am from Sri Lanka and went to Tasmania for vacation..
What an Amazing Place...
You feel the comfort of Fresh Air
No sooner you come out of the Hobbart Air Port..
Does Sri Lanka stink like India?
After having bought a block of land here in 2017, we finally finished our new home in the last month and have moved to Tasmania to retire after having lived in Brisbane for the past 61 years of my life. Climate change means i am very happy to move down here as Brisbane now has an oppressive climate. Tassie has the most magnificent scenery and wine, spirit and food culture. And there is no stress down here. i couldn't be happier.
Tas is a beautiful state . As said rough landscape and very green. After spending days in crowded Melbourne this was a treat
Although it might need a higher population, I hope itnstays a little as it is
Had a great time there
Good video, really enjoyed it. I'm from the US and would love to visit sometime. You guys seem like really cool people and I'm glad and grateful to count you as friends.
Come on down! We moved from Detroit to Australia as a family back in the 70's. I had severe culture shock to start with, but things are much more up to date now. There is still a lot that's very different, of course, and that's what I love.
It was a culture shock back in the 70's even for mainland Aussies, when my parents moved us here from Melbourne in 72. Tassie has come a long way since those days, not quite the backwater it used to be.@@Tamaresque
I very much enjoyed my visit to Tasmania. It was a bit like entering a time warp, but in a good way. The pace was slower and the people friendly. The flora, fauna, and scenery were fantastic. I'm from the Pacific Northwest so the climate was reminiscent of home.
I was introduced to my favorite wine in the whole world there - Stefano Lubiana Pinot Noir. Visiting the cellar door was an experience to remember.
I decided if I ever wanted to enter the witness protection program, Bruny Island would be the place where no one would ever find me. It's an island off the coast of an island, off the coast of an island.
Ha ha, yes. I had an American friend who bought waterside property on the Tamar River and would delight in telling his relatives that he lived down under Downunder.
Would like to see another Australian video which focuses on the tropical North and why so few people live there.
It's beautiful but for someone like me from Tasmania, I find it unbearably hot and humid. It's also a long way away from major centres and has large tracts of World Heritage wilderness like Tasmania (their's is Tropical Rainforest, Tassie has Cool Temperate rainforest). To my mind (as a Tasmanian), Tassie and the Tropical Far North are two of the most beautiful parts of the country.
I’m from Melbourne and when I visit the in laws in cairns, I’m suffering, I can’t handle the humidity and heat, I would say that’s the reason but I agree I would like a video on it because there’s states in the USA like Florida and the Carolinas that are just as humid and have massive populations
Crocs eat all the tourists...lol
I just left the far north QLD....... too many people are moving there now...and there's nothing being built to live in there. Renting is impossible and become expensive. Renting laws in Australia make renting a bad experience. I moved to Russia. Great place because of a great leader. Australia has very evil leadership. The media in Australia are known liars and together with the govt made Australia a joke.
@@ashdog236- Without aircon, Florida would be unliveable, as indeed it more or less was until the 1920s or thereabouts.
I'm in the wheat belt north of Adelaide (about 800km/500mi NW of Melbourne) and Tasmania's climate is a big attractor for me; you can only deal with Australian mainland summers for so long before it gets to you, especially if you're like me and wearing shorts in 10C weather is no big deal. Go hibernate down in Tasmania between December and May while everyone on the mainland cooks
When I went to visit AUS, I also spent a week exploring Tasmania, it was gorgeous. If I could afford to move from the states and retire there, I would in a heartbeat.
I really enjoy this channel. Explanations are clear, topics are interesting, length matches my attention span. Keep up the great work.
Most people don't know that Hobart has fewer wet days annually than Sydney.
I’m Tasmanian (moved to Melbourne). There’s no housing or any career opportunities, lack of public transportation, and the whole state feels like it has small town syndrome.
As much as it is refreshing to go home every now and then, it’s not accessible enough to live and you’re forced to live in a specific way.
Got to agree. I moved from NSW to TAS many years ago (was only 13 at the time, so I had no choice). It's definitely a good place to visit on a holiday, or to retire, but there's a very good reason a lot of my high school friends moved to Melbourne or Perth in their early 20s.
Most parts of the major cities do have good public transport coverage too, but the quality of service has dropped drastically since COVID started. Metro Tasmania's had such high staff turnover that they've had to reduce the number of buses running on weekdays, and the ones that still are are late most of the time. The government decided to halve bus fares for a year a couple of weeks ago though, so that's something.
someone likes dystopian cities
Womp womp
I always heard Honolulu was the most isolated city, but it has under 500k people, the Island has approximately 1 million people, much smaller than Perth.
Wow, I can’t believe you made such a glaring omission: Why is it called Tasmania in the first place? Glad you asked. It was named after a Dutch Explorer named Abel Tasman….the FIRST European to sight the island in 1642. You mentioned a lot about the English…but it was the Dutch who first discovered it. It should have been mentioned I think. Thanks for listening.
Abel Tasman not tasmania. Very proud Tasmanian here and we would rather people not know about our beautiful island state.
Right, Abel Tasman ….must of been auto correct lol.
It looks beautiful.
Best place on earth.
When my dad was alive he used to tell me about Abel Tasman and his adventures…he fought with the Dutch East Indies Army in Indonesia….Tasman seems so exotic, mysterious and beautiful to someone up here in Canada.
I spent 4 months in Australia, 1 month of that camping in Tasi. Loved the place. It and Western Australia were my favorite parts of a wonderful country. I would move to Tasmania in a heartbeat.
Somewhere out there, I hang on to hope that there are still a few Thylacine hiding.
I want to believe.
Love tassie. Best place to live. The issue Tasmania faces is it only operates of 40% of the land whilst 60% is locked up in national parks and reserves, and yes this is a good thing to some degree, however it gets 70% of its money from federal government. So we get 30% from 40% of the land. The other problem is we need a railway system to connect the noth of the state to the south like a bullet train system so the state can pool it's infrastructures together and have specialist at hospitals instead of having to fly to the mainland. We have so much potential and beauty in Tasmania that if we become like the mainland we lose what makes us unique.
boomer nonsense
@stackhat8624 not a boomer. Facts don't lie.
Just in regards to indigenous people, they were visited about 4,000 years ago by South Asian types (indians/ indonesians) who have left a small genetic mark.
They are also responsible for bringing the Dingo to Australia from Asia.
Europeans weren't the first colonists
That was in the Northern Territory, though, not Tassie.
I am a Tasmanian. Tasmania is very beautiful, cleanest air in the world. Happy to be here.
I had a wonderful time when I visited Hobart when I was in the US Navy. I was able to visit Mt Field State Park when there was a lot of snow. I really loved it there, such a beautiful country. 😊
I think you mean Mount Field.
No, he meant Mt. Field National Park, which is its given and commonly used name.
Cool vid Geoff. I am a born and raised Tasmanian living here in Hobart. Just fyi, Huon Pine is pronounced "Hew-on Pine" or "Hew-un Pine" (rather than "Who-On Pine") we also have the beautiful region called the Huon Valley! 🙏🏻 Also if you think the Tassie Devil is cool, spend a minute looking into the Tasmanian Tiger.
Loved how you summed up the history of Oz. If you are interested in such things, The Statute of Westminster in 1931 was the real legal independence from the UK, and other Dominions. The Australia Act was really an act involving Appointments, appeals, nationality and passports. For example, it settled the role of the Governor General, British Citizens had issues after it with coming and going without Australian nationality, the Australian Honors system was reinforced, and the final appeal in certain legal matters of law were decided by the Full Bench of the High Court, with no final appeal to the Privy Counsel. To Australians prior to 1973 there were a lot of advantages to retaining some British links, as the UK, and thus Europe, Canada, Nz etc were open to live and work. Many did. After UK legislation to slow South Asian and other immigration in 1973, Australians, Canadians and Nz'ers were caught up and more restricted in living and working in the UK. This started the rot to where we are today. Although, today the 4 countries of Australia, the UK, Canada, and Nz are now growing back closer together and those opportunities are returning.
1973 when the UK joined the Common Market now the EU. The year we also did the dirty on our Commonwealth trading partners.
Geoff, I came across your videos several months back. I truly enjoy watching them. You make geography interesting, educational and fun! Great job!
Very well explained and put together 👍
Love visiting Tassie…..reminds me of Scotland but with Gum trees….stunning scenery, wonderful people…..and incredible flora and fauna….can’t wait to visit again from my own tiny island of Jersey….
Funny how we islanders all get about the place. Im originally from ireland, and migrated to Tassie in 1999, i also visited Jersey for a long weekend, circa 1994/95 , i loved the zoo! I had the nicest devonshire tea i ever had in the cafe there😂!
@@lilliankeane5731Devonshire tea?where can I.get this?
@@deepb249 Hi , Devonshire tea is a common term for , a simple cake known as a scone, sliced in two and served with jam and cream.
@@lilliankeane5731 lots of sugar then?
@@deepb249 no, not necessarily my friend, as there is not much sugar in the scone, and the jam can be replaced with fresh fruit or berries of your choice.
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Curiously, in a warming world, people counterintuitively prefer the warmer, sunnier regions of south Australia to cooler, wetter Tasmania. Likewise, here in the US, the population is gradually shifting to the warmer southern states. These trends undermine efforts to create climate panic.
Maybe climate panic is a bunch of BS.
Very true. Turns out also that half of Florida's land isn't actually underwater now like they told us it would be 30 years ago.
Reality is, most of Tasmania has a very sunny climate, even in Winter which is not that cold. Summers are milder and much less humid than mainland Australia. Perfect climate really.